From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-10-02T14:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: why can't Ruby load .gem files directly?

On Sunday 02 October 2005 12:27 am, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean by that. �Could you elaborate (or point me �
> to documentation that provides more detail about this problem)?

If you have a shared library embedded in your gem file, how do you point your 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable at it so that the OS knows about it.  
Not only is a hard problem to solve, it is a hard problem that must 
(potentially) be solved differently on each platform.

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