RE: OT: Perl question

Hi Jared,

Thank you for your advice. Without setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH before the installation I got the message

        ld.so.1: perl: fatal: libgdbm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

during the Configure step. So I tried the installation again and this time not setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH but also ran a truss. I found out that the script tried to open

/usr/lib/libdgbm.so.2 (which did not exist), not
/usr/local/lib/libgdbm.so.2 (which did exist). So I created a symbolic link from 
/usr/lib to /usr/local/lib and tried the Configure run again. It worked fine.

Thanks
Long

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Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2001 6:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Sorry to tell you this Long, but the reason you are having this problem is that you compiled Perl by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib.

This shouldn't be done. It should be compiled *without* setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, other than for Oracle software. I saw that you did this in a previous post, thought you'd discover it pretty quick. :)

You will have to recompile Perl to fix this. I don't recall which option in the configuration you set the libraries at, as it's been a few months since I've had to do it.

You can read more about the evils of LD_LIBRARY_PATH at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~barr/ldpath.html

We're stuck with it for Oracle though.

Jared

On Friday 15 June 2001 02:05, Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Perl 5.005_03 software on my Solaris 2.6 box did not have the GDBM_file
> module in it, so I removed it, installed GNU gdbm software, and
> re-installed Perl 5.005_03 that I got from CPAN. However now every time I
> run Perl the system gives me this message
>
> ld.so.1: perl: fatal: libgdbm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory
>
> It did not happen with the old Perl copy.
>
> If I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib then run Perl, there is no
> problem.
>
> Do you know why How can I 'link' this LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting into Perl so
> that I do not need to have it explicitly set every time I run Perl. (And
> also I do not want other users on teh system to explicitly set it in order
> to run Perl).
>
> Thanks
> Long

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