.htaccess for Locating Locally Installed Perl

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

Dear fellow monks, I've installed Perl interpreter in my local directory as follows:

$!which perl
/home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin/perl
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And I also have stored the .htaccess with the following entries:

SetEnv PATH /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin:/home/rsch/bioinfo/bin
SetEnv PERL5LIB /home/rsch/bioinfo/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-sola
+ris:/home/rsch/bioinfo/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
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However upon running my cgi-script (hello.cgi) like this:

#!/home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Hello World !! It works.\n";
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It gives the following error log.

ld.so.1: /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin/perl: fatal: libc.so.1: version 
+`SUNW_1.19' not found (required by file /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin/
+perl)
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Any idea what went wrong with my scheme? Especially the .htaccess entry?

Some notes:

The default (#!/usr/local/bin/perl) Perl version in my office system is too old (version 5.004). That's why I installed the latest version of Perl locally.
I can execute a normal perl script (*.pl) with my locally installed perl with no problem with the new shebang (#!/home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin/perl).

Regards,
Edward

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Re: .htaccess for Locating Locally Installed Perl by almut (Canon) on Mar 28, 2007 at 10:03 UTC
You say you can run your locally installed perl normally outside of the webserver context. So you could check which `libc.so` it is using in this case: `$ ldd -s /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin/perl` [download] In the output, you'll see a paragraph beginning with `find object=libc.so.1`. Something like this: `find object=libc.so.1; required by /usr/local/bin/perl search path=/usr/local/lib (RPATH from file /usr/local/bin/perl) trying path=/usr/local/lib/libc.so.1 search path=/usr/lib (default) trying path=/usr/lib/libc.so.1 libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1` [download] Or, with `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` set: find object=libc.so.1; required by /usr/local/bin/perl search path=/opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xil/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/opt +/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xgl/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/ +lib:/usr/lib:/usr/ucblib (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) trying path=/opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xil/lib/libc.so.1 trying path=/usr/openwin/lib/libc.so.1 trying path=/opt/SUNWits/Graphics-sw/xgl/lib/libc.so.1 trying path=/usr/dt/lib/libc.so.1 trying path=/usr/openwin/lib/libc.so.1 trying path=/usr/local/lib/libc.so.1 trying path=/usr/lib/libc.so.1 libc.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc.so.1 [download] Essentially, this tells you that `libc.so` has been found in `/usr/lib/` (in my case). You can then add that directory to the shared object search path `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` in your CGI environment, just like you're already setting `PERL5LIB`. (Report back what you get from `ldd`, `ldd -s` and `ldd -sv`, in case this doesn't help...)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: .htaccess for Locating Locally Installed Perl by johngg (Canon) on Mar 28, 2007 at 09:00 UTC
Run this command line snippet and check whether the paths shown agree with your `$PERL5LIB` environment variable. It looks to me if you might have a discrepancy somewhere; /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin vs. /home/rsch/bioinfo/lib/perl5. `perl -le 'print for @INC;'` [download] I hope this helps. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: .htaccess for Locating Locally Installed Perl by monkfan (Curate) on Mar 28, 2007 at 09:08 UTC
Hi johngg, Following your suggestion here is what I have: `bioinfo@sf3:~[505]$ perl -le 'print for @INC;' /home/rsch/bioinfo/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris /home/rsch/bioinfo/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/lib/5.8.7/sun4-solaris /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/lib/5.8.7 /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.7 /home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/lib/site_perl .` [download] Regards, Edward	[reply] [d/l]
Re: .htaccess for Locating Locally Installed Perl by Anno (Deacon) on Mar 28, 2007 at 08:58 UTC
Check the environment with an eye on variables that influence dynamic loading. Print the environment (`printenv`) from the CGI script and interactively and find the differences. Quite a few differences will have nothing to do with your problem, but some may. Anno	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: .htaccess for Locating Locally Installed Perl by monkfan (Curate) on Mar 28, 2007 at 09:07 UTC
Hi Anno, Running `printenv` give me this. $ printenv PWD=/home/rsch/bioinfo TZ=Singapore bashrc_already_invoked=true SCREENDIR=/home/rsch/bioinfo/.screen LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/openwin/lib:/usr/op +enwin/lib:/usr/X11/lib://opt/sfw/gcc-3/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/opt/parasoft +/lib.solaris:/opt/SUNWmotif/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/ccs/lib PARASOFT=/opt/parasoft PERL5LIB=/home/rsch/bioinfo/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/sun4-solaris:/ho +me/rsch/bioinfo/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin TERMINFO=/usr/local/share/terminfo MANPATH=/opt/SUNWspro/man:/usr/dt/man:/usr/local/.5.8/man:/usr/local/m +an:/usr/local/teTeX/man:/usr/local/tex/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/interv +iews/man:/usr/local/openwin/man:/usr/openwin/share/man:/usr/local/X11 +/lman:/usr/X11/man:/opt/sfw/gcc-3/man:/opt/sfw/man H_SPELL=/tmp/spellhist.bioinfo USER=bioinfo AB_CARDCATALOG=/usr/local/lib/ab_cardcatalog OLDPWD=/ MAIL=/var/spool/mail/bioinfo/bioinfo EDITOR=vim SSH_CLIENT=137.132.80.55 1517 22 LOGNAME=bioinfo SHLVL=1 SSH_CONNECTION=137.132.80.55 1517 137.132.90.55 22 SHELL=/bin/bash CPU=SUN4 HOME=/home/rsch/bioinfo TERM=vt100 PATH=/home/rsch/bioinfo/.perl/bin:/home/rsch/bioinfo/bin:/opt/SUNWspro +/bin:/home/rsch/bioinfo/bin/SUN4:/local/bin:/usr/local/.5.8/bin:/usr/ +local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/java/jdk/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/ +bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.8:/usr/local/tex/bin:/usr +/local/interviews/bin/SUN4:/usr/local/openwin/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/u +sr/local/X11/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/sfw/gcc-3/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/lo +cal/share/oracle:/usr/dt/bin:/opt/SUNWmfwm/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:. XAPPLRESDIR=/usr/local/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/41 _=/usr/ucb/printenv [download] It seems that my .htaccess entry already accordance with it. Update: all the complete variables included, following Anno's suggestion. Regards, Edward	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: .htaccess for Locating Locally Installed Perl by Anno (Deacon) on Mar 28, 2007 at 09:30 UTC
There is little to be said looking at only one set of environment variables. Is that your normal interactive environment or what your CGI scripts see? With only three variables set, it looks unusually meager. Anno	[reply]