Proprietary Sybase DBI/DBD module

[DAVID HODGKINSON]

On 31 Oct 2012, at 17:53, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:

> On 31 October 2012 18:42, DAVID HODGKINSON <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31 Oct 2012, at 17:33, Jason Clifford <jason at ukfsn.org> wrote:
>>> The DBD will be normal perl however it will require a client lib which
>>> will be a binary only distribution.
>> And hilarity ensued.
> 
> I don't see why, that's how all the other commercial RDBMS DBDs
> work... What's so funny?

So may distros, so little time.

How widely can a single .so be spread across different kernels, 
libcs and so on?

Even VMWare ships source for their drivers so they can be compiled
for each flavour of kernel.

OK, from that linked page, the requirements are:

• Adaptive Server Enterprise – version 15.7 or later.
• Open Client and Open Server – version 15.7 or later.
• Perl – version 5.14.0 or 5.14.1.
• DBD::SybaseASE driver – no specific version requirements.
• CT-Library – (CT-Lib API) version 15.7.
• Perl DBI – version 1.616.

And this leads to:

Red Hat EL 5.0 (AMD64/EM64T)	 Certified	 view more
Red Hat EL 5.0 (IBM POWER)	 Certified	 view more
Red Hat EL 6.0 (AMD64/EM64T)	 Certified	 view more
Red Hat EL 6.0 (IBM POWER)	 Certified	 view more
SuSE SLES 11 (AMD64/EM64T)	 Certified	 view more
SuSE SLES 11 (IBM POWER)	 Certified	 view more

And a few Unixes according to http://certification.sybase.com/ucr/productResult.do.

So sparse linux support.