[Dbi-interbase-devel] DBD::Interbase windows install problem

[Surowiec, W. <Wil...@th...>]

I do not think this is project problem, but rather something rotten in my
environment. I've sent the following to the active state database list but
in case someone here can help ...

At times like these I ponder wistfully upon my father's question from years
ago "Son, are you sure you don't want to be a plumber?"

I've been struggling mightily with installing either of the 2 downloads of
the DBD module for interbase, available from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dbi-interbase/

Compiling from source appears difficult (I stopped after a half dozen or so
"tweaks" to the build process, "borrowing" of missing header files, etc).
So, sometimes, you don't have the source to _everything_.

The other option was an install through the ppm, what could be simpler -
except it ain't. I get two types of messages:

The first type is 20 copies of:
Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' must contain a 'CODEBASE' element. at
C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM.pm line 1684.

which does seem to be specified in the DBD_InterBase.ppd:

<SOFTPKG NAME="DBD-InterBase" VERSION="0,40,0,0">
	<TITLE>DBD-InterBase</TITLE>
	<ABSTRACT>DBD::InterBase is a DBI driver for InterBase, written
using InterBase C API.</ABSTRACT>
	<AUTHOR>Edwin Pratomo (edp...@cp...) and Daniel Ritz
(dan...@gm...)</AUTHOR>
	<IMPLEMENTATION>
		<DEPENDENCY NAME="DBI" VERSION="1,08,0,0" />
		<OS NAME="MSWin32" />
		<ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" />
		<CODEBASE
HREF="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DBD-InterBase.tar.gz" />
	</IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

After the 20 copies of the above message I get:

Installing package 'DBD-InterBase.ppd'...
Error installing package 'DBD-InterBase.ppd': Read a PPD for
'DBD-InterBase.ppd', but it is not intended for this build of Perl
(MSWin32-x86-multi-thread)

but when I do a perl -v, it yields:

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Binary build 633 provided by ActiveState Corp.
Built 21:33:05 Jun 17 2002


A plumber's problems may be more odiferous, but at least you know what you
are dealing with.

Any pointers, observations, suggestions, plumber's helper - all gratefully
accepted.

Bill

PS

I've cross posted to the source forge list for this project, but very little
traffic there convinced me to post here - plus reviewing the last 1.5 years
of messages does not indicate the problem lies in the code, but probably in
a local, environmental, blockage, hair ball, dropped brush, ... a plumbing
problem.