PERL Beginners - Adding a library to @INC

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Adding a library to @INC

Jay Caviness

2005-07-27, 5:02 pm

I have discovered that my Oracle installation has the DBI.pm module in
it. I really want to use this, but don't know how to have the @INC see
it when I do:

oracle> perl -e "use DBI;"

Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib
/usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
/usr/perl5/site_perl /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int
/usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1 /usr/perl5/vendor_perl .) at -e line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

--
Thanks,

Jay

Wiggins d'Anconia

2005-07-27, 5:02 pm

Jay Caviness wrote:
> I have discovered that my Oracle installation has the DBI.pm module in
> it. I really want to use this, but don't know how to have the @INC see
> it when I do:
>
> oracle> perl -e "use DBI;"
>
> Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib
> /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
> /usr/perl5/site_perl /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int
> /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1 /usr/perl5/vendor_perl .) at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
>

Normally you add to the @INC using the PERL5LIB environment variable. If
"oracle>" represents a normal bash shell, then,

export PERL5LIB="/path/to/lib/dir"

Should do the trick. If it is actually the Oracle client then you might
try the same because *theoretically* the subprocess should inherit and
respect the same environment.

HTH,

http://danconia.org

Stephen Mayer

2005-07-27, 5:02 pm

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Jay,

You need to set the PERL5LIB path to include the directory of the DBI.pm module.

Steve

Jay Caviness wrote:
> I have discovered that my Oracle installation has the DBI.pm module in
> it. I really want to use this, but don't know how to have the @INC see
> it when I do:
>
> oracle> perl -e "use DBI;"
>
> Can't locate DBI.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5.6.1/lib
> /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
> /usr/perl5/site_perl /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int
> /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.6.1 /usr/perl5/vendor_perl .) at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
>

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Tom Allison

2005-07-28, 9:07 am

Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:

> Normally you add to the @INC using the PERL5LIB environment variable. If
> "oracle>" represents a normal bash shell, then,
>
> export PERL5LIB="/path/to/lib/dir"
>
> Should do the trick. If it is actually the Oracle client then you might
> try the same because *theoretically* the subprocess should inherit and
> respect the same environment.
>

I'm trying to do the same under a Solaris install at work and for some
reason that I can't find ( insufficient man pages on box ), I can't get
my Environment of ~/.profile to be recognized from crontab entries.

Any other options under Solaris that I should try?

I know, I'm on the OT fringe here, maybe someone can give me an answer
using perl -i ?? :)

Xavier Noria

2005-07-28, 9:07 am

On Jul 28, 2005, at 12:32, Tom Allison wrote:

> Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
>
>
>
> I'm trying to do the same under a Solaris install at work and for
> some reason that I can't find ( insufficient man pages on box ), I
> can't get my Environment of ~/.profile to be recognized from
> crontab entries.
>
> Any other options under Solaris that I should try?

Sure, perldoc lib.

-- fxn

Wiggins d'Anconia

2005-07-28, 9:59 pm

Tom Allison wrote:
> Wiggins d'Anconia wrote:
>
>
> I'm trying to do the same under a Solaris install at work and for some
> reason that I can't find ( insufficient man pages on box ), I can't get
> my Environment of ~/.profile to be recognized from crontab entries.
>
> Any other options under Solaris that I should try?
>
> I know, I'm on the OT fringe here, maybe someone can give me an answer
> using perl -i ?? :)
>

I ran into the same problem. In general to my knowledge cron for
security reasons uses what is essentially an empty environment subshell,
and won't source any profiles. I know we accomplished the same task, but
don't have specifics. Try adding an export of the environment to the
beginning of your crontab command line, and separate it with semi-colons
as if you were issuing a single command, similar to,

* * * * * export PERL5LIB=/path/to/dir; /run/your/command

See if that works. I know it is possible with Solaris' cron but I know
we had to mess with it for a while. If you have compiled modules with a
C component you may also have to mess with the LD_* environment
variables, we had to.

HTH,

http://danconia.org

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