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in thread Setting env vars in current process

Nope, I only wanted to change the current process env. People seem pretty confident that you can do this. (So was I until just now!!) As discussed in reply above, I will just have to work out what else is wrong with my setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for XML::LibXML. Cheers Kevin
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Re: Re: Re: Setting env vars in current process
by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 11, 2003 at 19:48 UTC
    Perhaps you should have shown some code.
    If you're doing something like 
      $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'} = '/...';
  use XML::LibXML;

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    then the problem may be that the envar isn't getting set until after the library gets loaded. In which case, try 
      BEGIN { $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'} = '/...'; }
  use XML::LibXML;

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      No, that is not the issue. The problem is specific to the loader's caching of LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Replies above have links to solutions.
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