I'm having trouble installing DBD::Oracle into perl 5.8.8
against Oracle 9.2.0.4 on Sun Solaris 5.9
I've alread installed successfully DBI-1.53
But installing DBD-Oracle-1.19 yields...
Any ideas? 
SUPERUSER@cofjora01d:/home/erickn/perlinstall/build/DBD-Oracle-1.19> m
+ake test   
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harne
+ss(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/01base................ok                                            
+       
t/10general.............ok                                            
+       
t/15nls.................ok                                            
+       
t/20select..............ok                                            
+       
t/21nchar............... Database and client versions and character se
+ts:
Database 9.2.0.4.0 CHAR set is WE8ISO8859P1 (Non-Unicode), NCHAR set i
+s AL16UTF16 (Unicode)
Client 9.2.0.4 NLS_LANG is 'AMERICAN', NLS_NCHAR is '<unset>'
t/21nchar...............ok                                            
+       
t/22nchar_al32utf8......ok                                            
+       
t/22nchar_utf8..........ok                                            
+       
t/23wide_db.............skipped
        all skipped: Database character set is not Unicode
t/23wide_db_8bit........skipped
        all skipped: Database character set is not Unicode
t/23wide_db_al32utf8....skipped
        all skipped: Database character set is not Unicode
t/24implicit_utf8.......ok 1/74                                       
+       
#   Failed test 'byte_string test of row 4: column: nch  (uft8) smiley
+ face'
t/24implicit_utf8.......NOK 33/74#   at t/nchar_test_lib.pl line 341. 
+       
#          got: '38|58'
#     expected: '226|152|186'

#   Failed test 'nice_string test of row 4: column: nch  (uft8) smiley
+ face'
#   at t/nchar_test_lib.pl line 344.
t/24implicit_utf8.......NOK 34/74#          got: '&:'                 
+       
#     expected: '\x{263A}'
#    row 4: DUMP(nch) = Typ=1 Len=4: 0,38,0,58

#   Failed test 'byte_string test of row 4: column: nch  (uft8) smiley
+ face'
#   at t/nchar_test_lib.pl line 341.
t/24implicit_utf8.......NOK 70/74#          got: '38|58'              
+       
#     expected: '226|152|186'

#   Failed test 'nice_string test of row 4: column: nch  (uft8) smiley
+ face'
#   at t/nchar_test_lib.pl line 344.
t/24implicit_utf8.......NOK 71/74#          got: '&:'                 
+       
#     expected: '\x{263A}'
#    row 4: DUMP(nch) = Typ=1 Len=4: 0,38,0,58
# Looks like you failed 4 tests of 74.
t/24implicit_utf8.......dubious                                       
+       
        Test returned status 4 (wstat 1024, 0x400)
DIED. FAILED tests 33-34, 70-71
        Failed 4/74 tests, 94.59% okay
t/25plsql...............ok                                            
+       
t/26exe_array...........ok                                            
+       
t/30long................ok                                            
+       
        122/470 skipped: various reasons
t/31lob.................ok                                            
+       
t/40ph_type.............ok 1/19 Placeholder behaviour for ora_type=1 (
+the default) varies with Oracle version.
 Oracle 7 didn't strip trailing spaces, Oracle 8 did, until 9.2.x
 Your system doesn't. If that seems odd, let us know.
t/40ph_type.............ok                                            
+       
t/50cursor..............ok                                            
+       
t/55nested..............ok                                            
+       
t/60reauth..............ORACLE_USERID_2 not defined.  Tests skipped.
skipped
        all skipped: no reason given
t/70meta................ok                                            
+       
Failed Test         Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/24implicit_utf8.t    4  1024    74    4  33-34 70-71
4 tests and 122 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/20 test scripts. 4/1925 subtests failed.
Files=20, Tests=1925, 22 wallclock secs ( 9.43 cusr +  1.71 csys = 11.
+14 CPU)
Failed 1/20 test programs. 4/1925 subtests failed.
*** Error code 29
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test_dynamic'

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