From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-09-08T23:43:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with extensions, RHEL4, $LOAD_PATH

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

> 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"

oh well.  i was hoping you were picking up an old one ;-)

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

hmmm.  no idea, but does either of these give any leads?

   /usr/local/bin/ruby -r /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/bigdecimal.so -e 42

   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib /usr/local/bin/ruby -r /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/bigdecimal.so -e 42

   /usr/local/bin/ruby -r yaml -r rbconfig -e'  y Config::CONFIG  '  | less

grasping at straws...


btw.  i can compile 1.8.5 on a rhel4 box later today and give you a report.


-a
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