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Weaver John Cairns CONT NSSC
Date:
January 24, 2007 07:10
Subject:
RE: :Oracle make test problem
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791F162D7B7EC846A4B432B893BFB2920544D726@nssczeusex2.navsea.navy.mil
How would I fix this issue?


Thank you for taking the time to look at this.



-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Bunce [mailto:Tim.Bunce@pobox.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:21 AM
To: Andy Hassall
Cc: 'Weaver John Cairns CONT NSSC'; dbi-users@perl.org
Subject: Re: :Oracle make test problem

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:36:13PM -0000, Andy Hassall wrote:
> The two failed tests aren't Oracle tests, but are checking how exit codes
> are handled on your OS:
> 
> 	is system("exit 1;"), 1<<8, 'system exit 1 should return 256';
> 	is system("exit 0;"),    0, 'system exit 0 should return 0';
> 
> All the Oracle tests run and pass, so there's nothing apparently wrong on
> the Oracle side, but those above fail. 

They fail because Oracle has hijacked the SIGCHLD signal handler.

Tim.

> According to the docs for "system":
> 
> "Return value of -1 indicates a failure to start the program or an error
of
> the wait(2) system call (inspect $! for the reason)."
> 
> What output do you get if you run the following:
> 
> perl -e 'system("exit 1;"); print "$? $!\n"'
> perl -e 'system("exit 0;"); print "$? $!\n"'
> 
> -- 
> Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
> http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space :: disk and FTP usage analysis tool
> 
> From: Weaver John Cairns CONT NSSC [mailto:WeaverJC@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL] 
> Sent: 23 January 2007 18:16
> To: 'dbi-users@perl.org'
> Cc: 'Tim.Bunce@pobox.com'
> Subject: DBD::Oracle make test problem
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
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> I am having problems with DBD::Oracle install any help would be
appreciated.
> I am running Solaris10 (1/06 Sparc) and Oracle 10g.
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> Thank you,
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> John Weaver
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> Please look at my log file attached
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