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Fellow Monks,

I'm quite certain that I'm missing something obvious here, but I'm afraid that my brain is currently fried :/

Yesterday we had a hard disk failure on one of our key production servers (most of our critical stuff backed-up, thankfully), and for the past 24 hours or so we've been frantically re-building things.

This is a Linux box (Suse 9.3), and one of the things it needs to do is talk to a MS-SQL server. Previously I had this working using DBD::Sybase with the FreeTDS libraries.

So on the rebuilt box I installed and tested FreeTDS, and have it working fine (ie. I can establish a database connection from the command line). I then downloaded, built, and installed DBD::Sybase, which also installed error-free.

However, when I try to use it, this is what I get:

 perl -MDBD::Sybase
Can't load '/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
+/auto/DBD/Sybase/Sybase.so' for module DBD::Sybase: libct.so.4: canno
+t open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/pe
+rl5/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at - line 0
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
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Sybase.so exists...

file /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/D
+BD/Sybase/Sybase.so
/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/Sy
+base/Sybase.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD x86-64, version 1 (
+SYSV), not stripped
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...but as I said - I'm quite sure I'm overlooking something obvious and fundamental.

Can somebody please tell me what it is?

Many thanks,
Darren

In reply to DBD::Sybase - problem loading shared object by McDarren

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