Re: DBI::PurePerl and DBD::Oracle...

Lincoln, Adym wrote:
Hi all,

Just trying to understand the instructions on both these packages.

The main thing to understand is that DBI::PurePerl is meant to work only with DBDs that are pure Perl (have no C/XS component) and AFAIK, that does *not* include DBD::Oracle. You might be able to access Oracle using DBI::PurePerl via DBD::Proxy, but I doubt it will work directly. Is there a reason you are trying PurePerl rather than plain DBI?
I guess I'm trying to understand "why" we run the make test prior to
running the make install?
The general idea is that you should only install software that works so you test first, then if it works, install it. In some cases you can force an install even if the tests fail but that is opening yourself to the possibility of failure in production.

In cases such as yours where the tests work better after install, the chances are that there are some environment variables that are not set in your test environment so I'd recommend looking at and setting the environment variables required for DBD::Oracle and then doing the make test.

--
Jeff
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