From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T04:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: require and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Jim,

"Exporting" the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable should only make
a difference in terms of its visibility to child processes spawned
after the export. Since the dynamic loader isn't running in a child
process, it won't affect its behavior.

More likely, the problem is that the loader only reads that variable
once when it is first initialized, and then uses the cached value
throughout the lifespan of the process. You may need to wrap your Ruby
program in a shell script which sets the environment variable
properly, and then execs your script.

Lennon