Re: How to set LD_LIBRARY

I don't currently have Oracle installed, so this is untested.

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

BEGIN {
    $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}=$ORACLE_HOME;
    $ENV{PATH}="$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH";
    $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}="$ORACLE_HOME/lib";
}

use strict;
use warnings;
use DBD::Oracle;

print "$DBD::Oracle::VERSION";
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Re^2: How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH by mbethke (Hermit) on Jan 09, 2012 at 07:17 UTC
I can't think of anything to try this with right now but it's unlikely to work. Dynamically loaded modules use dlopen(3) to open libraries, whose Linux manpage says: `o If, at the time that the program was started, the environment vari +able LD_LIBRARY_PATH was defined to contain a colon-separated list of d +irectories, then these are searched.` [download] Note the "at the time that the program was started" bit, which means the binary i.e. the Perl interpreter here.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jan 09, 2012 at 07:41 UTC
That's what I thought, too. But as I understand it now, it's unlikely to work if you set ENV after you load the modules, but it likely will work if set before you load the modules.	[reply]
Re^3: How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH by Anonymous Monk on Feb 07, 2013 at 08:06 UTC
but it likely will work if set before you load the modules. Won't, it has to be set before you run perl	[reply]