From: Lyle Johnson <johnson2@...>
Date: 2001-03-23T12:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13110] Re: xmlparser installation woes

> [phil@kawa i686-linux]$ pwd
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux
> [phil@kawa i686-linux]$ ldd xmlparser.so
>         libexpat.so.0 => not found
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40011000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
>

Well, this is Linux telling you that xmlparser.so depends on three other
shared libraries (libexpat.so, libc.so and ld-linux.so) but it can't find
one of them (libexpat.so) in its search path. And since (according to your
original post) you've installed libexpat.so in /usr/local/lib, I'll bet you
can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point there:

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

and be a happier person for it. If this works, either add the above line to
your .bashrc file (or whatever's appropriate for your setup). I think you
can also modify /etc/ld.config but I've never done it that way. Check the
man pages for "ld" for the rest of the story.

Hope this helps,

Lyle