From: TDR <tdruttenberg@...>
Date: 2007-09-01T01:10:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ENV['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] not changing env

On Aug 10, 10:22 am, TDR <tdruttenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby 1.8.6 on solaris 9.
>
> I am a newbie.
> I need to setLD_LIBRARY_PATHwithin my script as follows:
>
> ENV['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = '/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql:/usr/local/
> easysoft/unixODBC/lib:/usr
> /local/easysoft/lib'
>
> but it doesn't seem to be "taking".  I get the error I would expect to
> get whenLD_LIBRARY_PATHis not set:

I had originally assumed this to be a problem with setting any
environment variables.  It turns out LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a special
case.  The syntax for setting environment variables in ruby worked
fine for TNS_ADMIN.

Moreover, I came across a posting somewhere today that explains why
not to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but rather LD_RUN_PATH. So the situation
in this posting, it turns out, is specific to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Hope this helps someone.