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I am using Perl 5.6.1. I have been informed by our sysops that I have to upgrade this due to a stat buffer overflow vulnerability in this. I downloaded and installed Perl 5.8.7. I also need the DBI and DBD modules for this for Oracle 8.x and 9.x. I was unable to find them anywhere.

I then downloaded the code to try to build it myself. the perl makefile.pl command gives a warning about multi-threading which appears to be on by default under XP.

For make, I downloaded nmake 1.5 from the microsoft website. This is giving me errors about CL.

Any place that i can get the binaries so that I could use ppm. I compile them under linux, but here I am using a severely crippled pc where security seems to take higher priority than to getting work done. FTP is blocked as well as a host of other ports and capabilities. Do I just need to install the full C program?

The dbi and dbd from 5.6.1 do not appear to work with 5.8.7.

In reply to Perl 5.8.7 and DBI/DBD by nnigam

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