Re: Oracle and Perl installation conflict

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:08:09 +0200
Message-ID: <46e68547$0$234$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

"PhilHibbs" <snarks_at_gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:1189510509.677430.4470_at_r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
>I have the latest ActivePerl installed on my laptop, and Oracle 10g
> personal edition as well. When I run a perl script that uses any
> modules, I get a message like this:
>
> Perl lib version (v5.8.3) doesn't match executable version (v5.8.8) at
> C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/
> Config.pm line 32.
> Compilation failed in require at C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl
> \5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 25.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl
> \5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 25.
> Compilation failed in require at C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl
> \site\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/Win32/Clipboard.pm line 12.
>
> This is because Oracle has set the PERL5LIB environment variable to
> point to its own installation of Perl 5.8.3. Can I safely remove this
> environment variable, or would it break Oracle in some way?
>
> Phil Hibbs.
>

Since it's just your laptop: try it, if it doesn't work, put it back! Or set PERL5LIB to point to the installation of 5.8.8....

Shakespeare. Received on Tue Sep 11 2007 - 07:08:09 CDT