From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T23:32:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with extensions, RHEL4, $LOAD_PATH

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
>> Ruby 1.8.5
>> RHEL 4, x86-64
>> gcc 3.4.5
>> make 3.80
>>
>> Something very strange is happening here.  The bigdecimal.so file 
>> clearly exists:
>>
>> [ djberge@lxomp55e /usr/local/lib/ruby ] $ pwd
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby
>> [ djberge@lxomp55e /usr/local/lib/ruby ] $ find . -name 'bigdecimal.so'
>> ./1.8/x86_64-linux/bigdecimal.so
>>
>> Yet Ruby can't find it:
>>
>> djberge@some_host /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 ] $ irb
>> irb(main):001:0> require 'bigdecimal'
>> LoadError: no such file to load -- bigdecimal
>>        from (irb):1:in `require'
>>        from (irb):1
> 
> 
> which -a irb
> 
> ??
> 
> -a

/usr/local/bin/irb

irb(main):002:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.5"

I did notice that autoconf wasn't installed originally.  So, I installed 
autoconf (2.59), did a 'make clean' and reinstalled.  Still no luck.

Regards,

Dan


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