[ruby-talk:9879] Re: sockets...again

>>>>> "M" == MICHAEL W WILSON <[e-mail]> writes:

M> After my previous message regarding my inability to 'require "socket"', 
M> Dave suggested that I add the location of my socket.so 
M> (/usr/gnu/lib/ruby/1.6/sparc-solaris) to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH (should I have 
M> a socket.rb? I don't).  In that same directory, I have etc.so, pty.so, 
M> md5.so, tcltklib.so and a bunch of header files.  All of the shared 
M> libraries have 555 permissions, all of the headers have 644 permissions. I 
M> added that directory to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but still if I do something 

 This is strange, I don't need LD_LIBRARY_PATH on 2.7

moulon% echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 
moulon% ruby -ve 'require "socket" or puts "not found"'
ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-25) [sparc-solaris2.7]
moulon% 

 Verify that you have the right $LOAD_PATH

moulon% ruby -e 'puts $LOAD_PATH.join("\n")'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/sparc-solaris2.7
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/sparc-solaris2.7
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6
.
moulon% 

 ruby use stat(), verify this :

     The stat()  function  obtains  information  about  the  file
     pointed  to  by  path. Read, write, or execute permission of
     the named file is not required, but all  directories  listed
     in the path name leading to the file must be searchable.


Guy Decoux