From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-12-07T06:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing shared object library into non-standard directoryi

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> 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.

permissions?

what happens if you just do

   ruby -r ./gui/lib/ruby-gnome2/lib/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux-gnu/glib2.so -e :noop

yourself?

-a
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