Build Notes for the perl-DBD-DB2 on RedHat6.x p-Series DB2 must be installed on the linux machine to build the DBD install rpm_build install cpan2rpm #run cpan2rpm DBD-DB2-1.78.tar.gz --author xCAT --version 1 ( to create a SPEC) export DB2_HOME=/opt/ibm/db2/V9.7 export DB2LIB=/opt/ibm/db2/V9.7/lib64 cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS Use the DBD-DB2.spec supplied in this directory cp DBD-DB2.spec /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpmbuild -ba DBD-DB2.spec This creates /root/rpm/RPMS/ppc64/perl-DBD-DB2-1-1.ppc64.rpm Note on Redhat 6 vi /etc/ld.so.conf add the following line /opt/ibm/db2/V9.7/lib64 The run ldconfig