From: "Br.Bill" Date: 2009-02-17T10:15:05+09:00 Subject: Building Ruby: Where is libruby1.8.so ? Ruby version: 1.8.6-p287 Architecture: RedHat enterprise 5.3 Linux den1 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Dec 17 11:41:38 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm no expert on building in Linux, but I have finally managed to build ruby after banging my head for a couple of days. I can install it too. I've got it installing into a test area (not a sysadmin). I can run lots of programs there, but not the ones I need to run, which are incompatible with the existing 1.8.5 installation. Unfortunately, although most everything else seems to work fine, I'm missing libruby1.8.so. Also its lab-mates, libruby.so and libruby18.so. 1.8 . libruby-static.a is here, drinking all the beer and looking smug. I need to operate outside of rpms - I do not have the power to install them anyway. How do I get the freaking these freaking .so files? Thanks for anything. -Br.Bill