The perl Makefile.PL was created successfully perl Makefile.PL Using DBI 1.52 (for perl 5.008008 on x86_64-linux-thread-multi) installed in /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI/ Configuring DBD::Oracle for perl 5.008008 on linux (x86_64-linux-thread-multi) I get warnings in the make but everything gets created ok I get the following errors during make test [root@cvlnxsybdq01 DBD-Oracle-1.24]# make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/01base................# Test loading DBI, DBD::Oracle and version t/01base................NOK 4 # Failed test 'install_driver' # in t/01base.t at line 22. Failed to load Oracle extension and/or shared libraries: install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load '/junk/DBD-Oracle-1.24/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so' for module DBD::Oracle: /usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client64/lib/libocci.so.10.1: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230. at (eval 7) line 3 Compilation failed in require at (eval 7) line 3. Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected at t/01base.t line 19 The remaining tests will probably also fail with the same error. I have searched online and read all of the README's with no luck! I am able to run remote db with sqlplus and have set the following env variables: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client64/lib: ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client64 TNS_ADMIN=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client64/lib and have the oracle bin directory in the path