On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Bruce Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anything 'baked-in' from the oracle environment to a DBD:Oracle install > at the time of installation? > > I'm having some weird problems involving linked databases that MAY be > related to the oracle client libraries version; can I change the libraries > that DBD:Oracle uses just by changing LD_LIBRRY_PATH and ORACLE_HOME?
DBD::Oracle is compiled against whatever version of libraries exist at compile time. The same libraries must exist on the machine where you use DBD::Oracle. If the same libraries exist in a different place, it can depend. On HP, I found that 'chatr Oracle.sl' (Oracle.sl being the Oracle shared library somewhere under @INC) did not have dynamic path search enabled (so the library had to always be in the same place), but you could change that with the chatr command. I don't know how to do that on any other system or if chatr is at all portable. HTH, Doug
