Oracle and Perl installation conflict

From: PhilHibbs <snarks_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:35:09 -0000
Message-ID: <1189510509.677430.4470@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>

I have the latest ActivePerl installed on my laptop, and Oracle 10g personal edition as well. When I run a perl script that uses any modules, I get a message like this:

Perl lib version (v5.8.3) doesn't match executable version (v5.8.8) at C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/ Config.pm line 32.
Compilation failed in require at C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl
\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl
\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 25.
Compilation failed in require at C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\perl
\site\5.8.3\lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/Win32/Clipboard.pm line 12.

This is because Oracle has set the PERL5LIB environment variable to point to its own installation of Perl 5.8.3. Can I safely remove this environment variable, or would it break Oracle in some way?

Phil Hibbs. Received on Tue Sep 11 2007 - 06:35:09 CDT