From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T02:04:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and socket.so

Peter Lerche wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I "require socket" in my application I get following error. 
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/socket.so: cannot open shared object 
> file: No such file or directory 
> - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/socket.so
> 
> The socket.so is of course located in above directory.

What does this command output:

ldd /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/socket.so

On my system i get:

$ ldd /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/socket.so
                libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7fde000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7fb0000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7f8f000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e62000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

I think the error message you are getting is saying that one of the
dependencies cannot be found, not that socket.so can't.

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