LD_LIBRARY_PATH error

yelekeri has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All,
Having a strange problem with this path variable, here is the code:

#!/var/tmp/faptdt/bin/perl
BEGIN  {
   $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = "/apps/sybcli/12/xappdefaults/lib";
   print "LD_LIBRARY_PATH = " . $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} . "\n";
}
use DBD::Sybase; 
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This works fine if the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is already set in the command line. Since I have to use it from CGI, i need to set it in the BEGIN block of script itself, but its not working. In fact the code worked fine but at the end throwing up some error message. Also according to the print statement, the path seems to be fine.

The error message is :

ld.so.1: test.pl: fatal: relocation error: file /apps/sybcli/12/lib/li
+btli_r.so: symbol comn_yield: referenced symbol not found
Killed
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regards

Janitored by tye: Preserve formatting

2006-07-18 Retitled by planetscape, as per Monastery guidelines

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Original title: 'LB_LIBRARY_PATH error'

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Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH error by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Jul 17, 2006 at 18:34 UTC
You can set environment variables prior to perl loading with the `SetEnv` directive in apache configuration. See the apache manual for details. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH error (search) by tye (Sage) on Jul 17, 2006 at 18:35 UTC
Super searching (or even just searching) for LD_LIBRARY_PATH would have found a few hits including (tye)Re: programatically setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which likely contains a solution that will work for you. Good luck. - tye	[reply]
Re^2: LD_LIBRARY_PATH error (search) by yelekeri (Novice) on Jul 17, 2006 at 19:25 UTC
Thank you very much guys, I read that earlier but probably didn't read it closely. Yes, the solution worked pretty good.	[reply]