From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-06-16T20:06:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How does ruby load a shared library

huiliang wu wrote:
> Hi,
> I created an c extension which is linked with another shared library 
> named
> libfoo.so.
> When I use this extension in ruby script, it evoke an error message:
> ./demo.rb:3:in 'require': libfoo.so: cannot open shared object file: 
> No such
> file or directory
>
> If I move libfoo.so to /usr/lib, it works.
> Is ther any other ways to deal with such problem? As I don't want to 
> put the
> library into /usr/lib or set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> Thanks in advance!
>
Check out ldconfig(8)