linux_base on 7-Stable for linux-oracle-instantclient?

[Chris Timmons]

We need basic access to an Oracle database via Perl DBI on FreeBSD 
7-stable.  Does linux_dist-gentoo-stage3 facilitate compiling/installing a 
linux perl better than doing so using the fc4 linux_base?

It seems like I will need some combination of the linux-instantclient and 
Oracle-8 client ports installed, then a linux perl to interface with 
them(?)

The proxy is in interesting idea which I will look into.

-c

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:

>> We are trying to get a reasonable Perl interface on FreeBSD into Oracle;
>> any other suggestions welcome.
>
>  What exactly are you trying to do?  If you want to use DBD::Oracle a
>  linux perl will be needed, basically you will need to install linux_dist-gentoo-stage3
>  do a change root and compile perl, DBD::Oracle...etc.  You can always run
>  a Proxyserver somewhere and use DBD::Proxy to connect to Oracle.