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Re: Environment Var Problem

by idsfa (Vicar)
on May 09, 2006 at 17:57 UTC ( [id://548289]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Environment Var Problem

BEGIN
{
   my $self = $0;  # or hardcode it, depending upon need
   if ( $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'} !~ m|/path/you/want| )
   {
      $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'} = "/path/you/want:$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+;
      exec $self, @ARGV;
   }
}

use DBI;

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Re^2: Environment Var Problem
by Anonymous Monk on May 09, 2006 at 18:06 UTC
    That's interesting! How does it get past the exec statement? In other words, what prevents the process from getting stuck in a loop?
[reply]

      It checks if the new path is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH before running itself again. Once the new path is there, it doesn't run itself anymore, breaking the loop.

[reply]
[d/l]
        It works, but I didn't get the stdout from a print statement inserted before the exec.

        Slimey, but satisfying.

        Thanks for the help.
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