Here's a hopefully simple question, but it's driving me crazy...
setup is HPUX11.11, perl 5.8.0, dbi-1.28, dbd-oracle-1.12.
perl compiles and works fine. so does dbi. dbd-oracle compiles ok,
too. but here is the problem...
in order to get the dbd-oracle to pass its tests, I must set the
following shell variables:
LD_RUN_PATH=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib
SHLIB_PATH=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib
(actually, I set them *before* I make dbd-oracle)
after I make install the dbd, everything works fine *if* I
set the SHLIB_PATH variable before invoking the perl script.
However, if I *don't* set SHLIB_PATH, I get the error:
install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load
'/opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/PA-RISC2.0/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.sl' for module
DBD::Oracle: No such file or directory at /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0/PA-RISC2.0/DynaLoader.pm
line 229.
So my question really is, should I *have* to set SHLIB_PATH in the shell before
running perl scripts that use dbd-oracle, or is there a way to force it to know
to use the library at /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib ?
(Obviously, this is a shared-library kind of issue, but I'm not a "real" programmer,
so I don't know the details of how this works - please be nice !)
BTW, if this were just a bunch of perl scripts, I wouldn't have a problem telling
the users to set the SHLIB_PATH variable before using them - however, the scripts
are actually cgi scripts, intended to be invoked from a web server, so before I
go and kludge up the Apache config to include this variable, I want to make sure
that I really *should* be doing that...
Thanks !
John
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