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Hi Stefbv,

Firstly, I never knew about perl Makefile.PL -i, that was really very helpful. Does it work on all Makefile.PLs? I'll check.

Well, I got it installed with a few tweaks, I'm not sure whether these were right or not, however, it seems to be working.

This is what happened:

perl Makefile.PL -i
Configuring DBD::Firebird (on linux)
libfbembed.so found in /usr/lib/../lib

This script prepares the installation of the DBD::Firebird module.

Warning: the process will create a temporary file to store the values
required for the testing phase, including the password for access to
the Firebird server in plain text: 't/tests-setup.tmp.conf'.


Reading cached test configuration...

Starting interactive setup, two attempts for each option,
 if both fail, the script will abort ...

 Enter the full paths to the Firebird instalation:
      Home: [/usr] /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/bin
   Include: [/usr/include] 
       Lib: [/usr/lib] 

 Configuring the test environment ...
  Hostname: [localhost] 

 Enter the full path and file name of the test database (.fdb):
   Test DB: [/tmp/dbd-fb-testdb.fdb]  

 Enter authentication options:
   Username: [SYSDBA] <user>
   Password: [masterkey] <password>

Multiple copies of Driver.xst found in: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4/aut
+o/DBI/ /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBI/ at Makefile.PL line 190
Using DBI 1.609 (for perl 5.012004 on x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi) i
+nstalled in /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4/auto/DBI/
Multiple copies of Driver.xst found in: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.12.4/aut
+o/DBI/ /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBI/ at Makefile.PL line 193
Found libfbembed, will build DBD::FirebirdEmbed too.
Configuring DBD::FirebirdEmbedded (on linux)

FIREBIRD_HOME   : /usr/lib/firebird/2.1/bin
FIREBIRD_INCLUDE: /usr/include
FIREBIRD_LIB    : /usr/lib
Client library  : fbembed

Writing Makefile for DBD::FirebirdEmbedded
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Writing Makefile for DBD::Firebird
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

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My first question was that it wasn't intuitive that the first answer was '/usr/lib/firebird/2.1/bin', however as that is what I use for DBD:InterBase, I used it.

Secondly, it couldn't find my actual database when specified, so I used the test one defaulted and everything worked.

Update:I meant to add that make test also failed so I did nto run it on the last occassion and went straight from make to make install. This worked and the resulting code also seems to work, although I guess there will be some glitches if I use the code that failed.

Then changing the DSN itself was child's play and everything sprung into life.

So thanks again.

Regards

Steve

In reply to Re^6: Install problems with DBD::InterBase by Steve_BZ
in thread Install problems with DBD::InterBase by Steve_BZ

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