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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m trying to connect to an ODBC data source using perl on Debian 7.3 (system is on recent updates).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This fails with the following error:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">install_driver(ODBC) failed: Unable to get DBI state from DBI::_dbistate at 10104b30. DBI not loaded. at /usr/lib/perl/5.14/DynaLoader.pm line 207.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">Compilation failed in require at (eval 26) line 3.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">at ./dbcheck.pl line 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m just calling a simple script that’s checking the installed data sources:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">#!/usr/bin/perl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">use strict;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">use warnings;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">use DBI;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">my @drivers = DBI->available_drivers();<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">die "No drivers found. \n" unless @drivers;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""># list the data sources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">foreach my $driver ( @drivers )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> print "Driver: $driver\n";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> my @dataSources = DBI->data_sources( $driver );<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> foreach my $dataSource ( @dataSources )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> {<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> print "\tData Source: $dataSource\n";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> print "\n";<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">exit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">My system is running on powerpc platform with the following versions installed:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">perl : <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Architecture: powerpc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Version: 5.14.2-21+deb7u1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">libdbi-perl:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Architecture: powerpc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Version: 1.622-1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">libdbd-odbc-perl:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Architecture: powerpc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Version: 1.37-1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Any ideas? Many thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wolfgang<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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