Re: [cx-oracle-users] ubuntu 8.04 build failure

[David D. Jr. <dav...@gm...>]

> Oddly, I also had to run the "python setup.py install" as root. sudo
> would not work because the ORACLE_HOME environment variable
> disappears. I also had to append
> /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/lib to
> /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig for it to load in my python
> interpreter. Otherwise I get the "ImportError: libclntsh.so.10.1:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" error.

I had that problem.  The solution is discussed here:

http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi/browse_thread/thread/6b5bd530e495c096


... What you can do though is when compiling/installing the Oracle
Python wrappers,
set LD_RUN_PATH to the library directory containing the Oracle
libraries ...

-Dave