Re: Perl with Postrges under Cygwin

For completeness....This cured the problem.

Perl/Progress now working fine thanks to all, especially Gerrit, for help.

Jim

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Jim.George,
>
> >> > <snip>
> >> <snap>
> > <snop>
>
> :-)
>
> >> Just use the CPAN module:
> >> Call on the command line:
>
> >> $ cpan
> >>
> >> And on the CPAN shell do (after init if neccessary):
> >> 1.
> >> cpan> install DBI
>
> > Brilliant no problems at all.
>
> >> 2.
> >> cpan> install DBD::Pg
> >>
> > This failed due to the POSTGRESS_INCLUDE and POSTGRESS_LIB environment
> > variables. My problem is that I don't know what to set the variables
> > to as they don't appear to agree with my directories. Could you tell
> > me what you believe they should be or could be?
>
> $ set | grep POSTGRES_INCLUDE
> POSTGRES_INCLUDE=/usr/include/postgresql
>
> $ set | grep POSTGRES_LIB
> POSTGRES_LIB=/usr/lib
>
> >> Thats it.
>
> > Well nearly ;)
>
> >> If you got problems with the latest DBD::Pg version, post the
> >> output of the single calls 'perl Makefile.PL' and 'make' of the
> >> DBD::Pg build.
>
> > See above...sorry
>
> You're welcome,
>
>
> Gerrit
>