Installed new IUS what perl bits need rebuilding ?

Perl Guru's, I'm upgrading from 9.14.UC2 to 9.14.UC7 on a Sun E450 Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6). We are using perl 5.005 patch 02 with DBD-Informix (Informix.xs,v 60.1 1998/07/30 22:38:07), but our site's perl installation is a mess, lots directories full of old installations. 2 questions :- 1) What perl bits need to rebuild ? 2) Where can I find Perl DBD-Informix installation description/notes ? rather than the www.perl.com site's DBI overview and release differences documents ? Thanks in advance, Geoff Poole Informix Database Administrator, OGS geoffrey.poole@ogs.co.uk

Geoffrey Poole wrote: > Perl Guru's, > I'm upgrading from 9.14.UC2 to 9.14.UC7 on a Sun E450 Solaris 2.6 (SunOS > 5.6). We are using perl 5.005 patch 02 with DBD-Informix (Informix.xs,v 60.1 > 1998/07/30 22:38:07), but our site's perl installation is a mess, lots > directories full of old installations. 2 questions :- > 1) What perl bits need to rebuild ? Possibly none. It depends on whether you are putting the 9.14.UC7 libraries where the 9.14.UC2 libraries used to be -- if so, you don't need to recompile. Alternatively, if you are putting the new libraries in a new directory but are keeping the old libraries where they were, you also don't need to recompile anything unless you really want to use the new libraries. Then you need to recompile DBD::Informix, and re-install it. > 2) Where can I find Perl DBD-Informix installation description/notes ? In the README file? You'd probably find the DBD::Informix 0.62 file a little easier to read; it has a very brief section at the front which explains that if you know these 5 items are OK, then these are the steps to take. If anything goes wrong, read the whole lot. Is there any particular reason why you're stuck with 9.14 rather than a newer CSDK and a newer engine? -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.62 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>