Perl 5.8.7 and DBI/DBD

nnigam has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh Wise and Wonderful Monks

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.

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Re: Perl 5.8.7 and DBI/DBD by marto (Cardinal) on Aug 04, 2005 at 14:22 UTC
Hi, Have a read at A guide to installing modules for Win32 by holli. In the tutorial it describes (among other things)a little about ActiveState Perl, ppm configuration and manual installation of modules. Hope this helps. Martin	[reply]
Re: Perl 5.8.7 and DBI/DBD by bofh_of_oz (Hermit) on Aug 04, 2005 at 14:25 UTC
Since you're talking about M$ nmake, I presume you have a Windows box you're putting Perl on. You can get a precompiled version from ActiveState. If you don't get DBI/DBD modules with it, you can use PPM utility to install those. UPDATE: here's one of PPM archives you can add to the list: http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/ In general, google around for PPM Oracle or something like that. -------------------------------- An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it...	[reply]
Re: Perl 5.8.7 and DBI/DBD by astroboy (Chaplain) on Aug 05, 2005 at 03:37 UTC
You can get the ppd binaries - but you'll still need FTP - here. I believe the 5.8.4 versions work should work with Perl 5.8.7	[reply]
Re: Perl 5.8.7 and DBI/DBD by Anonymous Monk on Aug 05, 2005 at 04:48 UTC
ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.4/DBI.ppd ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.4/DBD-Oracle.ppd ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.4/DBD-Oracle9.ppd	[reply]