Re: DBD::Oracle Install Fails on Gentoo Linux

If you have no objection I will add this to the new README.64bit.txt. I am collecting there all sorts of info related to compily DBD::Oracle on 64 bit boxes. Geting the Makefile.PL to work for 64 bit system is one of the jobs penciled in for a later version of DBD::Oracle

----- Original Message ----- From: "tom r" <mailbin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dbi-users@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:04 AM
Subject: DBD::Oracle Install Fails on Gentoo Linux


Installing DBD::Oracle on Gentoo Linux fails with the following error:

x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: unrecognized option '-wchar-stdc++'
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc: unrecognized option '-cxxlib-gcc'
cc1: error: /ee/dev/bastring.h: No such file or directory

I tracked this down to the Oracle XE install problem. Makefile.PL is reading
$OH/rdbms/demo/demo_xe.mk which has these paragraphs at the end:

ifdef BUILD_CCC296
CC=/usr/bin/g++296
CCFLAGS = -include /ee/dev/bastring.h
$(CCINCLUDES) -wchar-stdc++ -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -g
endif

ifdef BUILD_ICC
COMPDIR=/usr/local/remote/packages/icc_remote/8.1-022
CC=$(COMPDIR)/bin/icpc
CCFLAGS += -DOCCI_NO_WSTRING=1 -cxxlib-gcc
endif

This creates a CCFLAGS value of

'-include /ee/dev/bastring.h -I../ -wchar-stdc++ -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -g -DOCCI_NO_WSTRING=1 -cxxlib-gcc';

where '-wchar-stdc++' and '-cxxlib-gcc' are, apparently invalid options to gcc
and furthermore /ee/dev/bastring.h doesn't exist. By commenting out these
last two paragraphs Makefile.PL builds CCFLAGS with a value of

'-I../ -DLINUX -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -g'

which gcc likes much better. This modification to demo_xe.mk allows
DBD::Oracle to install and work properly. I don't know what BUILD_CCC296 or
BUILD_ICC mean but I suppose it's a Solaris thing that doesn't work under
Linux. Just a guess. In any event it would be nice if Makefile.PL took this
into account.

tom



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