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Re: Exim, .forward and DBD::Oracle


On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:

> Another problem is with perl in cygwin.
> On Linux I can set
> $ENV{PATH} and $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} inside
> perl script, but in cygwin I had to write shell script to call perl script:

Does it work in Linux if you DON'T set $ENV{PATH} and
$ENV{ORACLE_HOME} inside your program? Are you sure they are
not set elsewhere in your environment?

> #!/bin/sh
> PATH=/cygdrive/c/oracle/ora81/bin ORACLE_HOME='c:\oracle\ora81'
> /home/tabel/test.pl

> or I received following error:

> install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load
> '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dl
> l' for module DBD::Oracle: dlopen: Win32 error 126 at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/DynaLoader.pm line 232

> if I try to call perl script from .forward.

> This is thing I still don't understand. :-(

Does it work in cygwin if you set them in a BEGIN { } block at
the top of the script. Quoting perlmod,

    A "BEGIN" subroutine is executed as soon as possible, that is, the
    moment it is completely defined, even before the rest of the containing
    file is parsed. ... Because a "BEGIN" block executes
    immediately, it can pull in definitions of subroutines and such from
    other files in time to be visible to the rest of the file. 

I thought the problem might be setting environmental variables in
perl perhaps only passes them to children of the process, but:

	greg at 7106 ~
	$ perl -e '$ENV{hey}="what?"; print $ENV{hey}'
	what?
	greg at 7106 ~
	$ 

shows this is not so.

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