Re: [Dbi-interbase-devel] report on 20.3

[Edwin P. <ed....@co...>]

"Mark D. Anderson" wrote:
> 
> i just downloaded and tried the 20.3 tarball.
> it built successfully, once i edited Makefile.PL to use /opt/interbase instead
> of /usr/interbase (a change between beta and final linux release).

>         Carp::croak (package 'Carp') at /home/buildsite/local/perl-5.6.0/lib/5.6.0/Carp.pm, line 119
>         DBI::connect (package 'DBI') at /home/buildsite/local/perl-5.6.0/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux/DBI\

I haven't tested it with perl 5.6 and the final InterBase 6.0.
Have you successfully used it with perl 5.6 and IB 6.0 beta?

> btw, how awful would it be to name this module something other than DBD::InterBase,
> seeing as how there are two other such module out there already?
> it makes it hard to have multiple alternatives installed.

For testing purposes, you should 'use blib;' before 'use DBI;' in your
scripts, and make sure your scripts located within the directory
structure of the uncompressed tarball.
btw, what are the two other modules you mention above?

Rgds,
Edwin.