FreeTDS Development Group

[Kirk <whereisgui AT gmail.com>]

Thank you all for your help.
I apologize for the late reply. I got distracted with something else...

Yes, the problem was the location of the library, so I added
/usr/local/freetds/lib to the library path. Now, it works fine!
Thanks again.

On 5/11/05, James K. Lowden <jklowden AT freetds.org> wrote:
> Kirk wrote:
> >
> > I can't connect using DBD::Sybase
> > because the perl script fails to compile. I must point out that I
> > searched the archives and I found a thread dealing with the same
> > problem and Fedora Core 2 (I'm using FC 3). The fix was to add
> > /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf. I did it and I still get the same
> > error:
> >
> > # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> > # perl mssql.pl
> > install_driver(Sybase) failed: Can't load
> > '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/Sybase
> > /Sybase.so' for module DBD::Sybase: libct.so.3: cannot open shared
> > object file: No such file or directory at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
> >   at (eval 1) line 3
> > Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3.
> > Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
> >   at mssql.pl line 5
> >
> > I do have libct.so..
> > ls /usr/local/freetds/lib
>                 ^^^^^^^
> > libct.a     libct.so.3.0.0
> 
> You already got some good advice.  My only observation is that if you're
> going to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to help your run-time linker find libct, you
> have to give it the right path!  You added /usr/local/lib, but the library
> is in /usr/local/freetds/lib.
> 
> The right way to do this, as with all rt linker problems, is to add the
> RPATH to the binary.  (I answered a similar question at length recently;
> see the archives for "sqsh won't run").   I'm not enough of a perlhead to
> know exactly how that's done with Perl, but I would add it to the UG if
> someone enlightens me.
> 
> HTH.
> 
> --jkl
>