From: "David S." <dgs@...>
Date: 2001-01-24T09:24:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9788] Re: socket.rb? firewalls?

> 
> Another probably stupid question while we're talking about
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  I compiled tk support into ruby as well, and
> specified the correct LD..PATH in my .profile, but when I su - root and
> whatnot, it's not specified and ruby fails to load because of it.  We
> have the root user local to each box, the ruby installation is an nfs
> mount.  Is there any way to tell ruby (a config file (local to the ruby
> install) or something) to use that LD..PATH by default instead of
> having to modify all the profiles?
> 

I think a better idea would be to re-build (or at least re-link) 
ruby with a "-R/(your lib directory)" flag.  Setting a global 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH can cause problems.  See 

	http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html

David S.