Re: [suse-amd64] DBD::ODBC in Suse 9.0 Pro AMD64

"Vlad Didenko" writes:

I got the perl-32bit-9.0-0 installed, it does not have a file "perl". Also, will I need to uninstall the 64-bit UnixODBC and recompile it 32-bit, which will cascade for a lot of my other stuff to be recompiled as 32-bit. I wonder if it will be easier for me to just revert the whole system to 32 bit and wait 'till 64-bit matures a bit?

No, get the 32-bit perl..i386.rpm from a SUSE 9.0 (e.g. from ftp.suse.com or one of the mirrors) and grab the perl rpm from there, 64-bit is mature - it's just that some ISVs are not jumping on it. So, in any case please tell those folks that you really want 64-bit libraries... Andreas

Thank you for the suggestion and the time you are spending on this!!!

Sincerely, Vlad.

-----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 11:22 AM To: Vlad Didenko Cc: suse-amd64 Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] DBD::ODBC in Suse 9.0 Pro AMD64

"Vlad Didenko" writes:

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Helle All,

While trying to run our Perl application on a Suse 9.0 Pro AMD64. I found it impossible so far to configure access to MS SQL Server 2000 DB via the DBD::ODBC module. Apparently, Suse shipped 64-bit UnixODBC libraries, which would require 64 -bit versions of either OpenLinkSW or EasySoft drivers, which neither of them have today.

I tried an alternative to find 32-bit Perl on that system, however i did not find the executable in the perl-32bit package. and there is no unixodbc-32bit installed anyway. So it seems to be a hard path with a lot of non-suse supported recompiles involved.

Am I missing anything? Is there is an easier way to do it? Is there is a way to do it at all? Should I just rip the 64-bit version off and reinstall 32-bit (that is where I am going today for now)?

Appreciate any thoughts...

A big hack: Grab the 32-bit perl package , unpack it locally, move the perl to /usr/bin/perl-32 and install the 32-bit perl packages..

Andreas

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126