I'm having trouble with DBI and DBD::Oracle. I think that it has to do with setting of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable, so that DBI can dynamically load what it needs to access the Oracle database.

First, my initial code:

use DBI;

$ENV{ORACLE_HOME}     = '/common/oracle/product/v8.1.6';
$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = "$ENV{ORACLE_HOME}/lib";
$ENV{TNS_ADMIN}       = '/common/oracle/env';

$dbh = DBI->connect('','scmuser/scmuser@itopstst','','Oracle');
die $DBI::errstr unless defined $dbh;
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This fails with the following error:

install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load '/app/eol/perl/lib/site_perl
+/5.005/sun4-solaris/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so' for module DBD::Oracle
+: ld.so.1: /app/eol/perl/bin/perl: fatal: libclntsh.so.8.0: open fail
+ed: No such file or directory at /app/eol/perl/lib/5.00503/sun4-solar
+is/DynaLoader.pm line 169.

 at (eval 1) line 3

 at ./tst line 15
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This file, is indeed in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH/libclntsh.so.8.0. As evidence, if I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my shell before executing this script, it works fine. That led me to try this with a BEGIN block:

BEGIN {
  $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}     = '/common/oracle/product/v8.1.6';
  $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = "$ENV{ORACLE_HOME}/lib";
  $ENV{TNS_ADMIN}       = '/common/oracle/env';
}

use DBI;

$dbh = DBI->connect('','scmuser/scmuser@itopstst','','Oracle');
die $DBI::errstr unless defined $dbh;
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...which still doesn't work.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks,
Shendal

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