PS - although adding the path to .bash_profile works in the shell, it
doesn't  work when I start up my app using the facilities provided by
my host

-is that normal?



On Apr 20, 7:59 pm, Wouter de Bie <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Perry Smith wrote:
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH may not be resampled each time a library is loaded.  I'm
> > not sure.  The loader uses it but it gets it from the processes
> > environment.  The question is when.
>
> I read some articles about this and ld.so (normally linked by libc.so)
> calls_dl_init_paths() when it's initializing. After this, there are no
> more calls to this function. The input is drawn from the environment and
> /etc/ld.so.conf. There's not a lot to do about this, other than setting
> it before.
> In the question above, I think it shouldn't be a problem to include
> /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf (you need root access of course).
>
> Another dirty hack might be to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then fork.
> The new process should load the newly set path, but I'm not sure if you
> want to fork a complete rails stack (I've done it in the past, but
> doesn't feel very right).
>
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