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

Apparently was but my understanding of paths is that it goes from first directory listed ...down and so it should have picked up the 64 bit

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Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 12:10 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Ah, my mistake.

Last night I missed the fact that the first one *does* have LD_LIBRARY_PATH in it.

Having both the 32 and 64 bit libs in the path could have been your problem.

Jared

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 22:59, Jared Still wrote:
> This one is incorrect:
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib32
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
>
>
> This one is correct:
> > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
> The first one assumes that there is nothing else needed in
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Could be you need some system libs to
> do your linking.
>
> Try doing "echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to see what else is in it.
>
> Jared
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:09, Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us wrote:
> > So the external procedure call not finding a library was due to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. However, I don't understand why:
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:47 PM
> > To: May, James S
> > Cc: Yoshikawa, Makoto D; Evans, Russ F
> > Subject: remembered - relinking
> >
> > Guys,
> >
> > I had to relink a database 9i 64-bit database on swas04 which I was not able to do until I changed the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and that is the original reason I changed the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and according to following instructions:
> >
> > Oracle 9.X.X (64Bit) on Solaris (64Bit) OS
> > - Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$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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