Received: from mail.postgresql.org (webmail.postgresql.org [216.126.85.28]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f054OB753303 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:24:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pgsql-interfaces-owner@postgresql.org) Received: from cr833060-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com (cr833060-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.91.39]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f053gw750505 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:42:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from frederick.opp@home.com) Received: from home.com (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cr833060-a.shprd1.on.wave.home.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f053kEF03119 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 22:46:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3A554379.2035F055@home.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 22:46:01 -0500 From: faroxy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Subject: getting perl to talk to postgres Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200101/44 X-Sequence-Number: 653 I am trying to get perl to talk to postgres but the installation of DBI is proving to be a headache. I am installing DBI-1.14, but when I run "perl Makefile.PL" as the postgres user, I get the following error : [postgres@cr833060-a DBI-1.14]$ perl Makefile.PL Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for DBI Unable to open MakeMaker.tmp: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 756. I read in a previous posting addressing a similar problem that it could be because the user (postgres) does not have permission to write to the directory containing the perl source. I have used "chown" to make sure postgres can write to that directory but I get the same error. Can anyone advise me on how to get the makefile to work? system specs: RedHat 7.0; Postgres 7.0.2; DBI-1.14; Perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-linux . Thanks in advance for any help. Frederick.