From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-03-04T08:31:27+09:00
Subject: Re: non-root binary distribution

Hi,

At Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:54:48 +0900,
David Garamond wrote in [ruby-talk:94160]:
> Thanks, it works beautifully. The only thing left is that a user needs 
> to do:
> 
>   % LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/his/ruby/lib /path/to/his/ruby/bin/ruby
> 
> (or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in his ~/.bash_profile) otherwise ruby can't 
> find libruby.so. Is there a way to avoid/get around this?

a) use static linked ruby
    configure --disable-shared

b) prepare a wrapper script like followings, with renaming ruby
   to ruby-bin.

    #!/bin/sh
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${0%/*}${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" exec "$0-bin" "$@"

  Although it doesn't work in shebang lines, of course, you may
  not use user specific paths.

-- 
Nobu Nakada