To establish some ground work - I am not new to AIX (started using it in 1991 with 3.1) and we are a big user of perl and mysql. When we upgraded our servers to 5.1L it came with perl 5.6.1 preinstalled. We then downloaded and installed MySQL 3.23.x and it works fine. However, 5.1 did not have perl.dbi or dbd. So we downloaded the versions from the Bull freeware site (a great source) and installed them. Trouble is... they won't install.
Since then we've "removed" perl and the already installed dbi/dbd packages to assure a clean restart and tried again in various sequences. It always fails. So we've been running our perl jobs on a Linux box that runs great but takes eons longer for the same jobs.
BTW - We've also accessed the cpan shell and installed dbi/dbd but although they state they've completed successfully our perl programs fail on the calls to DBI.pm. We searched for, found, moved, symlink'ed, etc., etc., etc., until we were blue in the face.
Can anyone who may have experienced this situation after upgrading PLEASE provide some helpful guidance? A number of very frustrated systems people would be greatly appreciative.
Thanks in advance.
Since then we've "removed" perl and the already installed dbi/dbd packages to assure a clean restart and tried again in various sequences. It always fails. So we've been running our perl jobs on a Linux box that runs great but takes eons longer for the same jobs.
BTW - We've also accessed the cpan shell and installed dbi/dbd but although they state they've completed successfully our perl programs fail on the calls to DBI.pm. We searched for, found, moved, symlink'ed, etc., etc., etc., until we were blue in the face.
Can anyone who may have experienced this situation after upgrading PLEASE provide some helpful guidance? A number of very frustrated systems people would be greatly appreciative.
Thanks in advance.