Stick an entry for /usr/local/lib in
/etc/ld.so.conf?

* Safran von Twesla <me / privacy.net> [0155 16:55]:
> 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?
> 
> SvT
> 
> 

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