libdbd-odbc-perl error "install_driver(ODBC) failed: Unable to get DBI state from DBI"

[Wolfgang Pauer]

Hi,

I'm trying to connect to an ODBC data source using perl on Debian 7.3 (system is on recent updates).
This fails with the following error:
install_driver(ODBC) failed: Unable to get DBI state from DBI::_dbistate at 10104b30. DBI not loaded. at /usr/lib/perl/5.14/DynaLoader.pm line 207.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 26) line 3.

at ./dbcheck.pl line 15

I'm just calling a simple script that's checking the installed data sources:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use DBI;

my @drivers = DBI->available_drivers();

die "No drivers found. \n" unless @drivers;

# list the data sources
foreach my $driver ( @drivers )
{
    print "Driver: $driver\n";
    my @dataSources = DBI->data_sources( $driver );
    foreach my $dataSource ( @dataSources )
    {
        print "\tData Source: $dataSource\n";
    }
    print "\n";
}

exit

My system is running on powerpc platform with the following versions installed:
perl :
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 5.14.2-21+deb7u1

libdbi-perl:
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 1.622-1

libdbd-odbc-perl:
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 1.37-1

Any ideas? Many thanks in advance,
Wolfgang
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