From: Rasputin <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-01-30T01:17:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby & gd

Martin Weber wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:54:53AM +0900, Safran von Twesla wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm posting again and again... after a friend of mine doesn't manage
>>to get ruby work with gd on his windows system, I failed making ruby
>>run with gd under linux.
>>
>>I did it as written in the INSTALL.en file.
>>I first ran :
>>ruby extconf.rb --with-gd-include=/usr/local/lib/
>>--with-gd-lib=/usr/local/lib
>>
>>That's the place where gd is installed.
>>
>>Then I ran make & make install. There were no errors reported...
>>
>>
>>Here the error when trying to run the example.rb:
>>
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/GD.so: libgd.so.2: cannot
>>open shared object file: No such file or directory -
>>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux/GD.so (LoadError)
>> from ./sample/example.rb:3
>>
>>
>>What's wrong?
>>    
>>
>
>A lacking -Wl,-R /usr/local/lib in the compilation (aka ``rpath'').
>You shouldn't need touching your system's configuration for the
>installation of a packet. Contact the package's author and complain
>about the lack of using the right linker incantations :-)
>
>  
>
Agreed (my OS, NetBSD , doesnt do system library hacks like that.
-Wl,-R /shlibdir is pretty much compulsory). But since most Linux source 
builds aim themselves
at /usr/local, this'll save you hours of hassle .