From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-11-09T02:52:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Fox, Solaris 2.9 problem

Lyle Johnson wrote:

>
> My initial guess is that it simply doesn't see the FOX shared library
> (i.e. libFOX.so) in your dynamically-loaded libraries path. Ruby *is*
> seeing "fox.so", which is the shared library that implements the FXRuby
> extension module; but "fox.so" depends on "libFOX.so" which is the main
> C++ FOX library and that seems to be missing in action. So if you're
> using the C shell (or tcsh), try typing:
>
>         setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/sfw/lib
>
> which is where I'm assuming you installed FOX. Or if you're running the
> Bourne shell (or bash) you'd want to type:
>
>         export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/sfw/lib

Dang, I should have known you would ask about this.  It shouldn't be an issue.  My
current LD_LIBRARY_PATH is:

/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/local/qt/lib:/opt/oracle/lib

The FOX lib was installed under /usr/local, so the libFOX.so file is under
/usr/local/lib

>
> > Am I looking at rebuilding Fox with different ld options?  I don't remember now if
> > I ended up using GNU's ld or Sun's ld.
>
> I hope this isn't required, but I honestly don't the answer. I think our
> new Sun box is now in here at work but I don't know if it's been set up
> yet. I'll ask today about how that's going and if I can get an account
> to play on.

I think I built FOX with GNU's ld and Ruby 1.7.3 using Sun's ld.  I was (just now)
going to try and rebuild Ruby 1.7.3 with the --with-gnu-ld option, but that doesn't
appear to be a valid option (it didn't show up with "configure --help" and setting it
didn't seem to do anything).

What do I need to change within the configure script to get it to recognize this?  I
looked around some, but I only messed things up.

Matz, can we add --with-gnu-ld to the configure setup?

Thanks for your help.

Dan