In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ke rr Shannon-SKERR1" writes: >Is this related and if so do you have some advice or guidance I can >share with our computing team that can get this resolved so our >customers don't have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use our tool and we don't >have to develop a wrapper for it?
If you don't control where the customer is going to install Oracle's client libraries, then its impossible to a priori set the runtime link path for DBD::Oracle's Oracle.so. With Oracle Instant Client and Solaris 7 and newer, you might be able to use $ORIGIN. See Dave Barr's "Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad" <URL:http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html> John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
