From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-09-16T03:13:02+09:00
Subject: Ruby and LD_RUN_PATH

I'm trying to distribute a version of Ruby along with an application,
and have a dependency on several shared objects that need to be
distributed with it. On Windows, this is no problem: just add the DLLs
to the 'bin' directory from which Ruby is run, and the system picks
them up and loads them as needed.

Under Linux, though, I seem to be completely unable to get Ruby to
recognize the libraries. My file tree looks something like this:

app/
  (my sources and data files go here)
ruby/
  bin/
    ruby
  lib/
    <somelib>.so
    ruby/
      1.8/
        ...

I'm setting LD_RUN_PATH to './ruby/lib', and then launching the Ruby
binary with the flags '-I./ruby/lib/ruby/1.8
-I./ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux'. It finds the Ruby libraries and
shared object files just fine, but the <somelib>.so is not being
picked up.

Any ideas?

-- 
Lennon
rcoder.net