RE: Perl question

I'm not sure how to force Perl to check there, because I don't think it's a Perl thing, it's an OS-level loader thing.

Try editing /etc/profile, add the line

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib

Then on the line which reads "export..." append LD_LIBRARY_PATH

This will ensure that the environment variable is set correctly for every user who subsequently logs on.

HTH, g.

-----Original Message-----
[mailto:Long.Nguyen_at_its.csiro.au]
Sent: 15 June 2001 10:05
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi,

The Perl 5.005_03 software on my Solaris 2.6 box did not have the GDBM_file module in it, so I removed it, installed GNU gdbm software, and re-installed Perl 5.005_03 that I got from CPAN. However now every time I run Perl the system gives
me this message

        ld.so.1: perl: fatal: libgdbm.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

It did not happen with the old Perl copy.

If I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib then run Perl, there is no problem.

Do you know why How can I 'link' this LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting into Perl so that I do not need to have it explicitly set every time I run Perl.
(And also I do not want other users on teh system to explicitly set it
in order to run Perl).

Thanks
Long

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