[ic] Problems with Interchange on Suse-system

[Ryan Grace]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Martin Ascherl wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is anyone out there, who is running an Interchange system on a Suse
> system ??
>
> I have Interchange 4.9.8 installed on a Suse 8.2 system and couldn't get
> it to run.
> I thought I had installed all relevant modules in order to get it run,
> but still receiving an error message:
> ---------------------
> Configuring catalog foundation...Required Perl module DBD::mysql not
> present. Aborting catalog. In line 2 of the configuration file
> 'dbconf/mysql/mysql.cfg':
>
> foundation config error: Required Perl module DBD::mysql not present.
> Aborting catalog. In line 2 of the configuration file
> 'dbconf/mysql/mysql.cfg':
>
> foundation: error in configuration. Skipping.
> ----------------------
> I have also installed DBD::mysql, but still getting a.m. message.
>
> Perhaps one of you can give me a list of installed yast modules and with
> which version,
> (in yast via file=>export)
> so that I can compare this list with my system.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Regards
> Martin
>

I recently tried to get IC running on a SuSE 8.2 system and had to re-install Perl from scratch.  The version of perl shipped with SuSE 8.2 Pro is compiled with threads enabled, which IC doesn't like.  In fact, IC will refuse to start while giving a message about the threaded perl problem.

Ryan