Re: python sybase installation

>>Hmmm - either it statically linked with the sybase client lib, or it's
>>pulling in shared libs by hand. Anyone on the list have a better idea
>>what it's up to?
>
>The sybase  libs do dlopen() (or equiv) to link some of their libraries 
>at connect time, so ldd doesn't help much. You've pretty much gotta have 
>the correct LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime.

Ta. That's what I suspected. Is it using LD_LIBRARY_PATH in that case, or
some other environment variable (if they're using dlopen(), they can take
their choice)?

Anyway, strace should reveal if it's coming off the rails and pulling in an
old version of the lib.

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