From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2002-11-13T02:30:08+09:00
Subject: Re: setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't seem to work?

ahoward <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> writes:
> why not compile the module using LD_RUN_PATH?  relying on LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
> evil ;-)

Why is that?  In any event, the problem is that when loading C
extensions, ruby doesn't seem to be respecting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
setting.  Regardless of the probity of the idea, it's broken, and
needs fixing.

I worked around it by adding /usr/local/staf/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf,
but I don't think that's generally a good idea.

-=Eric
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