> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tommy Wareing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:55 AM
> To: Geoffrey Young
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: DBD-Oracle and mod_perl
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:27:06AM -0400, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> >
> > hi everyone...
> >
> > I was just wondering if anyone has been able to get the
> newer releases of
> > DBD-Oracle to work under mod_perl?
> >
> > that is, using DBD-Oracle 1.04, 1.05, and 1.06, under perl
> 5.005 (RH6.0
> > standard) and DBI-1.14 I get consistently non-working
> results, but only when
> > running under mod_perl. If I revert to 1.03, all is fine again...
>
> Tim's changed the Makefile.PL to include
> $::opt_b = 1; # try to use Oracle's own 'build' rule
> (it used to default to 0).
is this the same as the Makefile.PL -b option? Tim mentioned making that
the default in later versions, but that is what I have been using for a
while. Hmmm...
>
> Unfortunately, this has the side effect of requiring you to set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load the libararies, and to my knowledge (not very
> much knowledge), there's no way to actually set this value back to 0,
> other than editing the script.
>
> So, either
> a) edit the script, don't use Oracle's build rule, and don't set
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or
> b) use Oracle's build rule, and do set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
well LD_LIBRARY_PATH was set to $ORACLE_HOME/lib, but another suggested
adding $ORACLE_HOME/lib to /etc/ld.so.config, which seemed to work ok.
thanks for your input and help.
--Geoff
>
> I presume there ought to be a downside to option a?
>
>
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