Hello Monks, I'm writing tests for a program that accesses an Oracle database. When I run the tests directly or using prove, the tests work wonderfully. When I build the distribution (using Dist::Zilla) and run tests from the generated makefile, they fail: Could not connect to ... : install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load ... Library not loaded: @rpath/libclntsh.dylib.12.1 It must be an environment issue (I'm running OS X), but I have not been able to crack it via the usual endless googling. I think there may be some way to get the appropriate variables set via Dist::Zilla using the D::Z::P::MakeMaker::Awesome, but I shelved that effort in favor of hacking something that works at all to begin with. I tried setting the Oracle %ENV variables (dumped from my local environment where it works) within the problematic test using a BEGIN block, but still no luck... 
 
BEGIN {
    $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}="somepathto/oracle"; 
    $ENV{DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}="somepathto/oracle/lib";
}

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Any ideas? Thanks! UPDATE: I also tried unsetting the environment variables from within the test that works when I run it directly: 
BEGIN{
    `export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=""`;
     `export ORACLE_HOME=""`;
    `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=""`;

    $ENV{DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}='';
    $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}=''
    $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}='';
}

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The test still works!!!! I'm only able to make the test crash during the "make test" phase. This is curious...

In reply to Testing a library that accesses an Oracle Database by docdurdee

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