Re: OT: Perl question

Nice job of investigating the problem.

Glad you got it working.

Installing Perl is much easier after the first 3 or 4 times. :)

Jared

On Monday 18 June 2001 01:45, Nguyen, Long (ITS, Limestone Ave) wrote:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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