Re: Exim, .forward and DBD::Oracle

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:

> Greg Matheson wrote:
> > 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.dll' 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.
> >
> No. This doesn't work.
>
> I unsetted ORACLE_HOME and PATH in shell.
> Looks ORACLE_HOME can be initialized in perl script, but PATH- not!
> Unfortunately, I can't test it on Linux- DBD::Oracle on Linux simply
> doesn't need ORACLE_HOME/bin in PATH.
> So, I still don't know is this perl or cygwin problem ;-)

Ah.  This is starting to look familiar...  It's a Windows problem -- on
Windows, a DLL needs to be executable by the current user to be loaded.
Does Oracle.dll have the right permissions?
	Igor
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