On 2015-12-08 Adam Thompson wrote:
And to use Oracle DB in perl you need the module named "DBI" and the so-called driver for Oracle in DBI: "DBD::Oracle".
If you can find those in "packages" instead of self-compiling, that helps. DBI comes standard in perl now I think?
At the very minimum, get perl from a repo like Adam says, and use cpan to build the modules. It's not hard and is pretty stable once you have your build environment setup.
My one recommendation against the default config in cpan is to turn *off* automatic recursive prerequisite building. That usually ends in disaster. I would have it report the prereq's, which it does on the build step, and then chase them down manually one by one. It doesn't take as long as you'd think.
If you need more tips, etc, I'm a (self-proclaimed!) perl expert, ask away; but I can't help you with Solaris specifics. But I feel your pain... back when I was AIX-only for 6 years I faced the exact same problems. And then linux came and made all the pain go away. :-) Well, almost all.