OT: on which OSes Perl is in base install?

Not an OS, but a database: Oracle comes with Perl. Potential problems if you never realised this - following a DB install, you suddenly find your Perl code stops working as their Perl appears earlier in your PATH and you weren't expecting another Perl to suddenly appear.

I find their Perl next to useless. On Win2k it's not compatible with ppm, and chances are they used a completely different compiler to the one you use on Unix (particularly if you don't have the vendor's compiler and use gcc instead)

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Re: OT: on which OSes Perl is in base install? by Nkuvu (Priest) on Mar 01, 2004 at 15:48 UTC
Rational ClearCase also has its own version of Perl. It seems to be pretty crippled as well, but at least it's named `ccperl` so you don't have executable name conflicts.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: OT: on which OSes Perl is in base install? by aquarium (Curate) on Mar 02, 2004 at 12:28 UTC
which version of oracle are you talking about?? i installed v8 on winXP and it certainly doesn't have perl...only JAVA.	[reply]
Re: Re: OT: on which OSes Perl is in base install? by astroboy (Chaplain) on Mar 02, 2004 at 13:02 UTC
I first noticed this after upgrading from 8.0 to 8i - so I assume that this was the version that introduced it (the version that Oracle started bundling Apache with the database and their mod_plsql module): $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/perl/bin/perl	[reply]