How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in perl script

On 15.05.2007, James wrote:
> Instead of exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from command-line,
> is there a way to do this inside the perl script?
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib perl-script
> works, but I want the scriipt takes care of this inside.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is taken into an account mainly when ELF binary (here:
Perl interpreter) is executed (and later when it dlopen()s an ELF
object), so you should set it before script is executed at all.

Actually, you could try to re-execute script if appropriate path isn't
present in LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

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Stanislaw Klekot

In article <1179257871.681401.67500@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
James wrote:

> Instead of exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH from command-line,
> is there a way to do this inside the perl script?
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib perl-script
> works, but I want the scriipt takes care of this inside.

$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}="/usr/local/ssl/lib";

Note that this will only affect external programs run by the script, it
won't link perl itself with the libraries in that directory.

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