I have a situation where the default location for Oracle ($ORACLE_HOME) is pointing to a complete Oracle-10g database environment. That setting includes $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (and on HP-UX $SHLIB_PATH)
That environment is used for 3gl, 4gl and perl So far so good. Oracle's 10g libraries cause a crash when used in perl scripting when DBD::Oracle is used in the same script as Net::SSLeay (OpenSSL-1.0.1g) If I install Oracle Instant Client 12.1 (/pro/oracle/ic121) alongside Enterprise 10g (/pro/oracle/v102) and set ORACLE_HOME related environ to /pro/oracle/ic121 et all, DBD::Oracle-1.70 works, even with OpenSSL When I however work in the default 10g environment, DBD::Oracle cannot connect, as the LD_LIBRARY_PATH eventually loads libons.so from 10g Oracle decided to make *most* libraries have version numbers in the names, but did not do that for libons.so (libnnz12.so is obviously a different lib than libnnz10.so) I so far found no workaround in this deadlock, as I have only .so files and no .a files, so I cannot include the .so's in the generated build for Oracle.so What I now would like to do, is to change LD_LIBRARY_PATH and SHLIB_PATH *just before* the Oracle.so starts loading. That way, I can just put the shared libs that belong to DBD::Oracle next to Oracle.so if I change Oracle.pm to start with --8<--- BEGIN { use Config; (my $loc = $INC{"DBD/Oracle.pm"}) =~ s{/DBD/Oracle.pm$}{/$Config{archname}/auto/DBD/Oracle}; $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = "$oloc:$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"; $ENV{SHLIB_PATH} = "$oloc:$ENV{SHLIB_PATH}"; } -->8--- I am still too late :( :( I found no commands on HP-UX that alter the embedded library path of existing libraries (then I could change that in a copy to the location of installation on installation and disable the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and SHLIB_PATH for those) Has anybody else encountered problems like this? Any workarounds? -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.19 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/