Hello Monks,

I installed Oracle 10g on my Vista machine. Oracle installs a custom version of perl for its scripting needs. Note that Oracle's perl sets PERL5LIB variable.

A few days later I installed ActiveState (5.10) for my needs.

So, now when I do the following using ActiveState, I get an error: 

C:\temp\ama>c:\perl\bin\perl -V
Perl lib version (v5.8.3) doesn't match executable version (v5.10.1) a
+t D:\oracl
e\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/Config.p
+m line 32.

Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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So, first question is why ActiveState is not able to find its own config.pm? If I unset PERL5LIB variable, the perl -V (above) works fine. I have this type of question, yet I am still mystified with the PERL5LIB variable, because libraries in PERL5LIB are still searched even when I run ActiveState perl with -I switch providing explicit path to all my libraries.

Can you please help demystify the PERL5LIB variable.

Thanks so much.

Ash

In reply to Perl versions conflict help by jujiro_eb

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