Re:

> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
> Platform:
> osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris
> uname='sunos 5.7 generic_patch sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-1 '
> hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
> usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
> Compiler:
> cc='gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.8.1
> cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
> ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
> stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
> intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
> d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
> alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
> Linker and Libraries:
> ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
> libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
> libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
> libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
> Dynamic Linking:
> dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
> cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'
>
> Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
> Built under solaris
> Compiled at Jun 27 1999 20:12:35
> @INC:
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
> .
> The version of postgreSQL is v 7 and the corresponding pgsql_perl5 that came
> with perl /postgreSQL.
>
> We are getting a bus eror everytime that we run using the "use Pg;" module. In
> our log file we get the message that the script header is terminating
> prematurely. Is there a possibility of corruption? All other modules work fine
> and we have reconfigured several times to alleviate the problem. We are
> compiling origionally with gcc on a Sun system. Would you happen to have
> heard of this problem?

I have not heard of this problem. I do notice that the version of gcc
you are running (2.8.x) -- or at least used for compiling the original
perl package -- is notorious for not being of the quality of the 2.7 and
2.9 releases. You might consider running a more modern compiler if
possible but I'm not sure if that is at all related to your symptoms.

- Thomas