From: Hans Fugal Date: 2005-10-11T04:06:54+09:00 Subject: Re: QtRuby OS X Tiger >> at least it compiles now), and libsmoke is not being found in /usr/lib >> for some reason by require 'Qt', so I did >> >> ln -s /usr/lib/libsmoke* /Developer/qt/lib > > This sounds like the dynamic linker just needs a refresh. I don't have my Mac > in front of me right now, but I'll play with it a little later and see if I > can't reproduce the issue. I figured this one out. Somehow My DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH got set to ":". Setting it to its nominal default (according to [1]) "$HOME/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib" made it work without the symlinks. 1. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/DynamicLibraries/index.html