From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-04-06T22:42:17+09:00
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lruby

Hemant Kumar wrote:
> You should configure ruby with "--enable-shared" option and then you
> can just put
> 
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/ruby/lib:.
> 
> this should fix you up, in no time.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a rather fragile frig. It will fail whenever this 
environment variable is not set.

In any modern Linux distro, you should be able to do this:

  echo "/opt/ruby/lib" >/etc/ld.so.conf.d/ruby.conf
  ldconfig

which will configure the loader permanently to search for libraries in 
/opt/ruby/lib, and does not depend on environment variables.

If you don't have an /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ directory, then edit 
/etc/ld.so.conf, add the line
  /opt/ruby/lib
to the end, then run ldconfig
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