[svn:dbd-oracle] rev 511 - dbd-oracle/trunk

Author: lbaxter
Date: Thu Oct 21 20:22:27 2004
New Revision: 511

Modified:
dbd-oracle/trunk/README.hpux
Log:
Add several paragraphs to the introduction

Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/README.hpux
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--- dbd-oracle/trunk/README.hpux	(original)
+++ dbd-oracle/trunk/README.hpux	Thu Oct 21 20:22:27 2004
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
For HPUX 11 on Itanium see also
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.users/23840

-=head1  First things First
+=head1  First things First:  Introduction

The reason you are even reading this file is because you want to connect
to an Oracle database from your perl program using the DBD::Oracle DBI
@@ -38,6 +38,30 @@
this document, some information can be found in the section
L<Compiling on a Client Machine>, or see your friendly Oracle DBA.

+One final remark, 3 years after this was first written.  This has been
+updated numberous times over the years.  And some of the new biuld
+recipe's see simpler than some of the original instructions in this file.
+
+I think one reason the recipe is getting simpler may be that the build
+hints, in the base perl build have gotten more right, as we have moved
+from perl 5.6.1 to the 5.8.4 (now the stable version).  Its too bad they do
n't
+include the +z switch (at least for when the compiler is the softbench C
+compiler for the bundled C compiler.
+
+Someday, if I ever find myself building on HP again I should probably
+update as many of these recipes (that I can test) by trying to remove
+more of the special case stuff I have in my build scripts now.
+Gram Ludlows's build for the default bundled C compiler shows that a lot
+of this may no longer be necessary.
+
+On the other hand, it would be bad if we deleted information that others
+might need, so I err on the side of too much, in the hope that the
+person who really needs the information, will not have to look beyond
+this file.
+
+   -- Lincoln
+
+
=head1  Build your own Perl

HP's default Perl is no good (and antique).