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Re: Prebuilt DBD::Informix for Solaris 2.6
by arturo (Vicar) on Mar 14, 2001 at 23:26 UTC

    I'd be surprised if there were such a beastie. What matters is not your OS version, but the version of the shared system libraries you have. Moreover (I'm not entirely clear on Informix licensing issues, but) it's usually illegal to distribute binaries of proprietary software. (which is what a precompiled package would be; of course these issues vanish if Informix is truly open source)

    You are going to have to build it yourself, but take heart: it's pretty likely that you have make and cc available, and besides those things, the only other thing you will NEED are the client libraries for Informix from Informix. Those should have come with the rest of the Informix package. If you download the DBD::Informix package and make it, Perl should handle the rest, assuming the client libraries are in a sane place.

    Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

      DBD::Informix isn't owned by Informix. A precompiled DBD::Informix would simply be using libraries supplied by a commercially purchased version of Informix.
Re: Prebuilt DBD::Informix for Solaris 2.6
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2001 at 23:25 UTC
    Is it not possible for you to compile it on your Solaris box? If you are having problems, I might be able to help you out. We have installed it on Solaris 2.7 quite a few times here, though not on 2.6. We jumped from 2.5 to 2.7.