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A 29 year old belgian who likes Mountain Dew, Girl Scout Cookies, Tim Hortons French Vanilla Flavoured Cappucinno, Belgian beer, Belgian chocolate, Belgian women, Magners Cider, chocolate chipped cookies and Perl. Likes snowboarding, snorkling, sailing and silence. Bach can really cheer him up! He still misses his dog.

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Wednesday February 22, 2006

12:41 PM

DBD::Sybase and Solaris

[ #28778 ]

I had some problems getting DBD::Sybase up and running on Solaris 9. I was using it in a CGI script on a proprietary framework and the environment variables seemed broken. I got the following error:

install_driver(Sybase) failed: Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/ sun4-solaris/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.so' for module DBD::Sybase: ld.so.1: perl: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory at

I found libgcc_s.so.1 in my /usr/local/lib and that path was added to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I tried recompiling with extra parameters, I tried setting the environment variable explicitly in the script but nothing seemed to work. I then looked back at my development setup (where it DID work) and found out that libgcc_s.so.1 was in /usr/lib on that machine. I quickly created a symlink and tata! It worked!

Small sidenote: If you're compiling DBD::Sybase for Netcool, don't forget to fetch the Netcool patches for DBD::Sybase and FreeTDS from Netcool Users.

Extra sidenote: If you're running Netcool in a redundant setup, define an actual database in your DBI connect statement and not the virtual database name.