From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2006-12-07T05:20:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing shared object library into non-standard directory

On 12/6/06, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have ruby-gnome2 installed into a subdirectory of my application.
> ruby-gnome2 has a library in it called glib2.so.  I've added the
> appropriate directories to $LOAD_PATH.
>
> However, when I try to require some of the ruby-gnome2 libraries, I get:
>
> ./gui/lib/ruby-gnome2/lib/site_ruby/1.8/glib2.rb:68:in `require':
> libruby.so.1.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory - ./gui/lib/ruby-gnome2/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux-gnu/glib2.so
> (LoadError)
>
> glib2.so does exist in that location though.  Any ideas?


LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to include the
./gui/lib/ruby-gnome2/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux-gnu/glib2.so
directory, btw.