From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 20 12:36:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27565 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme44.sunshine.net [209.17.178.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27522 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:36:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00688; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:31:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: Adrian Chadd cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DBI/Perl5 going under 2.2.6-REL.. In-Reply-To: <199806201845.CAA10757@mail.creative.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Adrian Chadd wrote: => => Hi. Helo. [cut] => mysql works fine. But when I try to include the DBI stuff I get: => Can't find 'boot_DBI' symbol in /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-freebsd/auto/DBI/DBI.so => at /home/waix/bin/test.pl line 3 => BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/waix/bin/test.pl line 3. => => => Which is rather annoying. => => All test.pl is is this: => => use DBI; => => 0; => => => If I use DBI::mysql.. I get a similar error to the above one, but the error => comes from mysql.pm not test.pl . => => Any ideas? This is what you do. # cd /usr/bin # mv perl perl4.0 # ln -s /usr/local/bin/perl perl # ls -l perl* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 19 May 10 20:10 /usr/bin/perl -> /usr/local/bin/perl -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 274432 Mar 24 17:52 /usr/bin/perl4.0 In future you may find some other makes may have a problem perl5.0004. Other than that you'll not have to ever revert it back. At least I haven't. Regards, Discover Rock Solid Kevin G. Eliuk Discover FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.Org --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==----==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- --==**==-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message