Re: How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH

You will have to set those values before your modules load.

So you should stick them in the BEGIN and that should work

http://www.compuspec.net/reference/language/perl/BEGIN_and_END.shtml

cheers
John Scoles

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:45 AM, newbie01 perl <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Can someone advise how to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH from within the Perl scripts?
>
> If I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the command line, all is okay
>
> [oracle ~]$ perl -e 'use DBD::Oracle; print $DBD::Oracle::VERSION,"\n";'
> Can't load
>
> '/oracle/product/db/11.1/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so'
> for module DBD::Oracle: libclntsh.so.11.1: cannot open shared object file:
> No such file or directory at
> /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
> at -e line 1
> Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
> [oracle ~]$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oracle/product/db/11.1/lib
> [oracle ~]$ perl -e 'use DBD::Oracle; print $DBD::Oracle::VERSION,"\n";'
> 1.15
>
> But if I do the following instead in the Perl script, it does not work? How
> to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH then?
>
> $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}=$ORACLE_HOME;
> $ENV{ORACLE_SID}=$ORACLE_SID;
> $ENV{PATH}="$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH";
> $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}="$ORACLE_HOME/lib";
>
> FYI, the script is to run from a cron which is why am setting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the script.
>
> Any response will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>

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