Re: How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:23:32AM -0700, Marilyn Sander wrote:

> On May 28, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 06:14:38AM -0400, John Scoles wrote:
> > 
> >> You will have to set those values before your modules load.
> >> 
> >> So you should stick them in the BEGIN and that should work
> > 
> > ... except where it doesn't, such as on Solaris for example.  Here,
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH (at least) really does need to be set before the process
> > starts.  You can do this by writing a shell wrapper, or re-execing your
> > perl script if the value is not already set.

> Have you considered doing a require instead of a use.  With require, the
> loading is done at run time, and would be governed by the setting of
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, at the time the require statement is executed.  Just set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH before doing the require.

I'm afraid that you may have misunderstood what I wrote.  There are
times when you really do need to set the variable before the process
starts.

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