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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> perl-dbi-dev
perl-dbi-dev
Re: Problems building DBD on strawberry Perl
by Martin Evans other posts by this author
May 21 2008 3:14AM messages near this date
Re: Problems building DBD on strawberry Perl | Bug in DBD::Oracle handling LOB columns and synonyms?
H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>  On Wed, 21 May 2008 09:21:57 +0100, Martin Evans
>  <martin.evans@[...].com> wrote:
>  
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm hoping someone here may be able to help with an outstanding ticket I 
> > have for DBD::ODBC.
> >
> > http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Status=Active&Queue=DBD-ODBC
> > which started at http://rt.cpan.org//Ticket/Display.html?id=32789 (for 
> > strawberry perl)
> >
> > The problem is people using cpan -i on strawberry perl as cpan sets INC 
> > on the command line and this overrides any changes made to INC in the 
> > Makefile.PL. As a result the change all DBDs make to add the path for 
> > DBI's header files is lost and the compile fails. This has been reported 
> > to me via mail 4 times in the last fortnight :-(
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas if there is a way around this?
>  
>  http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?search=ODBC&go=Go
>  http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl_Problem_Modules
>  http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Install_DBD::Oracle_on_Strawberry_Perl
>  
>  http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32811
>  

Unless I've missed something, there is nothing in the above except edit 
the makefile to add the DBI path. What I was really looking for is an 
automatic solution to the problem.

Martin
-- 
Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Limited
http://www.easysoft.com
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