Re: solved!

From: Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce_at_pobox.com)
Date: 05/18/04


Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:33:53 +0100
To: "Whitener, Paul" <Paul.Whitener@GMACInsurance.com>

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:09:32AM -0400, Whitener, Paul wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> After hours of googling, I finally tarred up the rdbms directory from a full install of Oracle and
> untarred it to the proper place on the box with the client only. DBD::Oracle dropped right in after
> that.
>
> The only error I was getting was "can't find certain header files" It found some, but not others.
> Obviously it found what it needed in the "full" rdbms directory.
>
> Perhaps a good post might include how to make it go when you work with plain jane Solaris and the Oracle
> 9i client.

Patches for the README.client file are welcome.

> (I also had to download Sun's compiler for the 60 day trial to get it in there!)

GCC is free (and available precompiled at www.sunfreeware.com)

Tim.



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