Monks,

I am confused (my usual state) but right now I have reason!

I am trying to get a perl script to talk to an Oracle database. Oracle DBD seems to be installed correctly.But I get this strange error (see below).

My perl script sits on a linux box and my Oracle dB on a sun server. However, I am confident that Oracle is set up correctly as I can access it via sqlplus from my linux box.

A search of the site revealed a few related links 28533 but all seem to indicate that the Oracle library(LD_LIBRARY_PATH) isn't installed correctly. But I think it is.

Any ideas?

Thanks

A.A. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN {
    $ENV{ORACLE_BASE} = '/usr/local/share/oracle';
    $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "$ENV{ORACLE_BASE}/815client";
    $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = "$ENV{ORACLE_HOME}/lib";
    $ENV{TNS_ADMIN} = "$ENV{ORACLE_HOME}/network/admin";
}

use strict;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
use DBI;
use DBD::Oracle;
use Data::Dumper;
.
.
.
print "path = $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} \n";
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:database=XYZDEV01", 'user', 'pass')
+ || die  $DBI::errstr;
.
.
.

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generates the error message: 
perl: relocation error: /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so:
+ undefined symbol: OCIInitialize

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Commenting out the my $dbh line.. reveals that 
path = /usr/local/share/oracle/815client/lib

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as it should be!

In reply to Oracle DBI by aging acolyte

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