New version of DBI driver for Firebird is available at cpan with many changes and bugfixes . Please report any bugs and add them to the github project’s issues list

To download from cpan and install, simply do:

wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARIUZ/DBD-Firebird-0.60.tar.gz

tar -zxvf DBD-Firebird-0.60.tar.gz

cd DBD-Firebird-0.60/

perl Makefile.PL

make

make install

optional step