Running IBM DB2 Client V8.1 under FreeBSD

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> (from Tue, 20 May 2008  
18:03:43 +0200):

> Anyway, the db2 CLI client seems to be working fine, but getting the
> Perl DBD::DB2 module to work seems to be impossible. It compiles fine,
> but it will result in a FreeBSD perl library, which itself is linked
> against a Linux library.
>
> Is there a way to make this work? Short of using a linux perl
> binary+module?

AFAIK a perl module is just some kind of a library (from a compiler  
point of view), so it depends on which symbols the linux library uses  
and if you are willing to write some compat-shims. In the icc port we  
have some black magic to be able to link the linux-libs which come  
with icc to create a native FreeBSD program, maybe you can borrow some  
of this (objcpy in the Makefile and some stuff in files/). Feel free  
to ask here if you have some specific questions regarding the icc  
black magic.

Bye,
Alexander.

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