RE: I HATE ORACLE LD_LIBRARY PATH - GRRR!!!

So the external procedure call not finding a library was due to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, I don't understand why:

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Sent:	Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:47 PM
To:	May, James S
Cc:	Yoshikawa, Makoto D; Evans, Russ F
Subject:	remembered - relinking

Guys,

I had to relink a database 9i 64-bit database on swas04 which I was not able to do until I changed the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and that is the original reason I changed the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and according to following instructions:

Oracle 9.X.X (64Bit) on Solaris (64Bit) OS
- Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib32

• Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$ORACLE_HOME/lib

My thinking was that setting:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib32 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$ORACLE_HOME/lib

versus:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Would only add the lib32 libraries at the end of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I am not sure how taking that one part out and commenting out

#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$ORACLE_HOME/lib

would make a difference

I still am confused as to why taking these changes fixed the problem.

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