I really appreciate your work here and hope it will be somehow integrated into the main DBD::Oracle in the future, since using the instant-client is much more lightweight and easy to install if you just want simple access to an oracle DB somewhere!

I first had problems getting the instant client to work on my Fedora Core 3 machine. Every time i started sqlplus from the shell, it hung using 100% CPU. This was resolved when i upgraded my system (using yum), which replaced for instance the glibc package and MANY other rpms. I don't know which one of the 450 udated RPMs did the trick, but afterwards it worked fine and DBD::Oracle compiled without any complaints and i can do selects etc from my Perl script. I know my problems isn't really tied to DBD::Oracle, but more of a instant-client problem, but when i tried googling, i found nothing, so i thought i'd share my experience. It also works fine on a FC4 installation that i have.

The only problem i have now is how to specify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmentvariable in my CGI-script... i would rather not add this in my apache environment since it will be glob for ALL my cgi-scripts. I made an ugly workaround with a bash shell-script as a wrapper that exports the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ORACLE_HOME and then calls my perl program. There's got to be a better way of doing this!?

Cheers, Carl