From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2002-11-12T12:08:38+09:00
Subject: setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't seem to work?

On a linux system, I've developed a extension to STAF (see previous
posts) that links to libSTAF.so to provide various bits of
functionality.  However, I had forgotten that I'd set my
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find said library, so it was always loaded
correctly.

I discovered that it wasn't loading correctly when I ran some CGI code
I'd written around that extension.  So I did what I do in every other
programming language, and set ENV['LD_LIBRARY_PATH'] to point to
/usr/local/staf/lib, where the library resides.  Alas, this did not
work.  In fact, if I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my environment and tried
this, it didn't work there either.

I'd suspect myself before I'd suspect ruby, but in this case, I think
I've covered all my bases.  Comments are welcome.

-=Eric
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