Hello Brothers I wonder if anyone can assist me with my latest Perl problem. I am trying to install the DBD::Oracle module and keep getting the following error :-

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-
MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')
+" t/*.t
t/base.......ok
t/cursor.....ok
t/general....ok 2/24Can't get DBI::st=HASH(0x12deac)->{NUM_OFFIELDS_ty
+po}: unrecognised attribute at t/general.t line 41.
t/general....FAILED test 5
        Failed 1/24 tests, 95.83% okay
t/long.......ok
t/meta.......ok
t/ph_type....ok 11/19 Placeholder behaviour for ora_type=1 (the defaul
+t) 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/ph_type....ok
t/plsql......ok
t/reauth.....skipped
        all skipped: no reason given
t/select.....ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/general.t               24    1   4.17%  5
1 test skipped.
Failed 1/9 test scripts, 88.89% okay. 1/1535 subtests failed, 99.93% o
+kay.
*** Error code 29
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test_dynamic'
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Does anyone know how to correct this problem? The Oracle is at v9.2.0.4, Solaris is version 8 and the perl version is at the top of the error file (5.8.5). If required I can supply the complete text from the "make". Thanks Ronnie