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set %ENV before you load the libs (Score:1)
BEGIN {
$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = 'path_to_lib' ;
}
use FooLib ;
uri
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Re:set %ENV before you load the libs (Score:2)
Based on what I was seeing yesterday, that is not correct. Oracle.so does not load at compilation time. All I do is use DBI. If I understand correctly, DBD::Oracle is not loaded until I say DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle...").
But just in case I was misunderstanding, I tried what you are suggesting, two ways: by putting the setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a BEGIN block, as you suggested, and also by throwing 'use DBI' into a string eval, just for good measure, to make certain that the load must occur after t
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