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

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 10:11 -0700, Chris Timmons wrote:
> 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?

fc4-linux base does have dev ports, so you can't compile.  

> 
> 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 8 client is to old, current version of DBD::Oracle won't compile
with it.

> 
> 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.