sybperl-l Archive

From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at MBAY dot NET>
Subject: Re: Problem installing sybperl under linux
Date: Oct 3 1997 1:49PM

Steve wrote:
> 
> I'm having a problem installing sybperl 2.07 or 2.07b under linux. The
> perl version I have is 5.00401  I'm using  sybase.gz from the sybase
> site, I also tried the version on www.mbay.net/~mpeppler site.  I'm
> tried to link statically. The problem I have is when I do a make test I
> receive the following errors:



 /home/snape9/sybperl-2.07/blib/arch/auto/Sybase/DBlib/DBlib.a(DBlib.o):
> In function `to_datetime':
> DBlib.o(.text+0x623): undefined reference to `dbconvert'

You are trying to build the DBlib part of sybperl which requires
Sybase's DBlibrary API. This library is not available on Linux,
unfortunately.

Edit CONFIG and set DBLIBVS=0, then rebuild from scratch (ie
starting with perl Makefile.PL).

Michael
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