in reply to DBD-Oracle-1.74 installation fails

On Linux you have to be su to install packages, or use sudo. Does your Windows user have admin privileges?

gcc: error: `cat: No such file or directory

Possibly 'cat' is not in your path.

gcc: error: blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle/extralibs.all`: No such file or ++directory

Possibly the extralibs.all file is not in your path.

Perl 5.8.8 on Redhat Linux RHEL 5.5.56 (64-bit)

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Re^2: DBD-Oracle-1.74 installation fails
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 09, 2014 at 22:02 UTC

    Possibly 'cat' is not in your path.

    Why would gcc need a `cat` file in the path? Because it wouldn't you know