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 :-)

-Martin