Thanks Corion!! I was able to get it to work following your previous posts on the topic. Adding this to head of the test: 
BEGIN {
    if( ! $ENV{PDUPRE_RESTART}) {
      $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = '...some Oracle path../lib';
      #$ENV{DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH} = '...some Oracle path../lib';  #Either
+ LD OR DYLD works
      $ENV{PDUPRE_RESTART} = 1;
      exec $0, '--restarted', @ARGV
    };
};

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worked after I made the test an executable and set the shebang line to point to my local install of perl: 
!#/Users/.ME./perl

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I had it set to: 
!#/usr/bin/env perl

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but it didn't show up because I am in the habit of running my perl scripts/tests using `perl t/some.t`; if I run using `/usr/bin/env perl t/some.t` than I again get the error from the OP.

In reply to Re^2: Testing a library that accesses an Oracle Database by docdurdee
in thread Testing a library that accesses an Oracle Database by docdurdee

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