I have created an installable (RPM) for RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 for DBD::Oracle that will work against the downloadable Oracle-Instantclient.
If anybody wants it, keep reading
The "explain" functionality of the module (that most folks don't use) requires a whole boat-load of Tk stuff, so I've (forcefully) removed those portions of the dependancy tree.
cpan2rpm --force --no-requires 'libclntsh,perl(Tk),perl(Tk::Balloon),perl(Tk::ErrorDialog),perl(Tk::FileSelect),perl(Tk::Pod),perl(Tk::ROText)' --requires oracle-instantclient-basic --version 1.16 --release Ora10.RHEL.3 --make-no-test DBD::Oracle
Anyway, it's here
http://www.vollink.com/gary/bin
Any and all comments welcome.