This last suggestion intrigued me, and I attempted it, but I get relocation errors. Doing a truss on a properly running script yielded no additional shared libraries, so I'm kind of stumped where to proceed next along this line. 
dl_load_file: ld.so.1: /export/home/webadmin/bin/perl: fatal: relocati
+on error: file /usr/local/opt/oracle/product/8.0.5/lib/libclntsh.so: 
+symbol slpmprodstab: referenced symbol not found at VDS/Tests/DB.pm l
+ine 29.

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Attempting to load an 8.1.6 version (libclntsh.so.8.0) succeeds, but I guess Oracle.so is still expecting the older version, so I still get the 'open failed' error from install_driver(Oracle)/DynaLoader..

On a related note, I can't figure out how to get Netscape web server 3.6 to pass this LD_LIBRARY_PATH to CGI scripts! Grr.. (Update: I have since figured this out, so my problem is essentially solved.)

The exec solution isn't an option here, since this is actually a module and I'd kind of like to keep it transparent to the caller. Is there any way I can modify Oracle.so's RUN_PATH without rebuilding Oracle.so? (We resorted to some serious trickiness to get this to build, since this system doesn't have a fully copy of Oracle installed on it.)

In reply to Re: (tye)Re: Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for DynaLoader modules by Fastolfe
in thread Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH for DynaLoader modules by Fastolfe

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