[104521] trunk/dports/databases/oracle-instantclient/Portfile

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2013, at 20:55, "Daniel J. Luke" <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
>> On Mar 26, 2013, at 8:28 PM, ryandesign at macports.org wrote:
>>> 
>>> +    # Oracle builds the libraries with strange install_names, which we fix, for
>>> +    # neatness. Unfortunately users must still set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in their
>>> +    # environment because one of the libraries, libociei, is dynamically loaded
>>> +    # at runtime rather than being linked to.
>> 
>> can't we just add an rpath to applications that use oracle-instantclient? (it works with sqlplus, at least in my testing).
> 
> I'd love to find a better solution but I'm not sure what you mean.

On the binary that would need DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH set in order to run, you can run install_name_tool -add_rpath /path/to/oracle/libs binary instead and it will be able to find them when it tries to load them at runtime.

I've only tested this on the sqlplus command line oracle client (from instantclient-sqlplus-macos.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip), but it seems to work ok.

If the dependent library is always loaded from one of the other libs, setting rpath there might fix it without having to do it on any binary that is loading it at runtime (but I haven't investigated to see if that is true). I'm going to see if I need to set rpath on my local build of DBD::Oracle today...
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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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