DBD DB2 blues

fiquebem

We're running TS 6.5 SP1 on Solaris 2.9. We installed the DB2 Application Development Client (V8.1, I think). We also installed DBI 1.48 and have been trying to install DBD:B2 0.78.

Re. the latter, running "make" seems to work except for this repeated error:

/usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ld: bfd assertion fail elf32-sparc.c:1737

Running "make test" results in:

t/base....dubious
Test returned status 0 (wstat 139, 0x8b)
test program seems to have generated a core

Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/base.t 0 139 ?? ?? % ??
Failed 1/2 test scripts, 50.00% okay. 0/1 subtests failed, 100.00% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 29

A simple such as the following results in a Segmentation Fault:

use DBI;
my($dbh) = DBI->connect("dbiB2:mydbname","xyz","xyz");

Is there an easy easy way to troubleshoot using the "core" file? I tried "mdb" but gave up.

What we put in place of mydbname doesn't seem to matter.

Has anyone been able to use DB2 w/ Interwoven's Perl? On Solaris? Any hints?

Compiler details:

gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

Many thanks,

S.

fiquebem

We eventually got DBD:B2 built with Interwoven's Perl ...

To get around the "bfd assertion fail" errors, I temporarily renamed gcc’s /usr/local/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ld to ld.hold, so Sun’s /usr/ccs/bin/ld would be used instead. Then I removed the "-E" from the "LDDLFLAGS" in Makefile and Constants/Makefile, as Sun's loader was complaining about it. Then I was able to "make test" and "make install" successfully.

S.