On Mar 27, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 20:55, "Daniel J. Luke" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 8:28 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> +    # Oracle builds the libraries with strange install_names, which we 
>>>>> fix, for
>>>>> +    # neatness. Unfortunately users must still set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in 
>>>>> their
>>>>> +    # environment because one of the libraries, libociei, is dynamically 
>>>>> loaded
>>>>> +    # at runtime rather than being linked to.
>>>> 
>>>> can't we just add an rpath to applications that use oracle-instantclient? 
>>>> (it works with sqlplus, at least in my testing).
>>> 
>>> I'd love to find a better solution but I'm not sure what you mean.
>> 
>> On the binary that would need DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH set in order to run, you can 
>> run install_name_tool -add_rpath /path/to/oracle/libs binary instead and it 
>> will be able to find them when it tries to load them at runtime.
>> 
>> I've only tested this on the sqlplus command line oracle client (from 
>> instantclient-sqlplus-macos.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip), but it seems to work ok.
>> 
>> If the dependent library is always loaded from one of the other libs, 
>> setting rpath there might fix it without having to do it on any binary that 
>> is loading it at runtime (but I haven't investigated to see if that is 
>> true). I'm going to see if I need to set rpath on my local build of 
>> DBD::Oracle today...
> 
> setting an rpath on libclntsh.dylib.11.1 (and nothing else) makes sqlplus and 
> DBD::Oracle happy. I imagine it will work for other things as well (and 
> enable use of the libs without setting DYLD_* variable(s)).


Ryan - have you tried this at all on any of the ports you maintain that use 
oracle-instantclient? I think just adding the rpath to libclntsh.dylib.11.1 
should work for most apps that use the oracle libs.

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                  
 
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