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. > > You're using linux and I'm not sure if this sort of messing about is > required there. > > >> 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 >> <newbie01.p...@gmail.com>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. >>>
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. --Marilyn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
