I am trying to install DBD::Oracle 1.06 on HP-UX 11.0 using Perl version 5.6.0 for Oracle 7.3.4. I was able to successfully install the DBI 1.14 interface, but when I try and install the DBD package, it fails. The perl Makefile.PL command seems to work without any errors - just a warning that I might need to use static linking. Then when I use the make command, it aborts because it doesn't like the -Wl argument for the ld (link editor) command in the Makefile script. I tried using static linking, and it gets through the "perl Makefile" and "make" commands, but when I "make perl" or "make test", it aborts and does a core dump. I don't think that static linking is the solution to my problem. I have tested my ld, and it doesn't recognize -Wl. When I edit the Makefile script and take out the -Wl argument, it runs fine, but then when I do a "make test" command it fails (probably because it needed that option to be properly configured). Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Ken Here are the warning lines from perl Makefile.PL: Found header files in rdbms/demo. Warning: You may need to build using static linking. See the README file. Warning: By default new modules are installed into your 'site_lib' directories. Since site_lib directories come after the normal library directories you must delete any old DBD::Oracle files and directories from your 'privlib' and 'archlib' directories and their auto subdirectories. Here is some of the output from the "make" command (I edited it for length): mkdir blib mkdir blib/lib .......... mkdir blib/man1 mkdir blib/man3 cp oraperl.ph blib/lib/oraperl.ph cp Oracle.pm blib/lib/DBD/Oracle.pm cp Oraperl.pm blib/lib/Oraperl.pm /usr/local/bin/perl -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/Oracle/g" < /opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/PA-RISC1.1/auto/DBI/Driver.xst > Oracle.xsi /usr/local/bin/perl -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0/PA-RISC1.1 -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0 /opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /opt/perl5/l ib/5.6.0/ExtUtils/typemap Oracle.xs > Oracle.xsc && mv Oracle.xsc Oracle.c cc -c -I/apps/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/demo -I/apps/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/public -I. -I/apps/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/demo -I/apps/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/d emo -I/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/PA-RISC1.1/auto/DBI -Ae -D_LARGEFILE_SO URCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O +Onolimit -DVERSION=\"1.06\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" +z -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0/PA-RISC1.1/CORE Oracle.c cc -c -I/apps/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/demo -I/apps/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/public -I. -I/apps/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/demo -I/app s/oracle/7.3.4/rdbms/demo -I/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/PA-RISC1.1/auto/D BI -Ae -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O + Onolimit -DVERSION=\"1.06\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.06\" +z -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0/PA-RISC1.1/CORE oci7.c ........... Running Mkbootstrap for DBD::Oracle () chmod 644 Oracle.bs LD_RUN_PATH="" ld -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.sl -b -s -a shared Oracle.o dbdimp.o oci7.o oci8.o -Wl,-Bimmediate /apps/ora cle/7.3.4/lib/libclntsh.sl -l:libcma.sl -lcl -lm -l:libcl.a -L/usr/lib -l:li bdce.sl -L/usr/lib -l:libdld.sl ld: Unrecognized argument: -Wl,-Bimmediate ld: Usage: ld flags... files... *** Error exit code 1 Stop.