Installing Rubinius 2.0.0-rc1 on CentOS 6.3 - it complains no libyaml found though i installed it

Question

Please do not advise RVM related solutions, I do not use it. I'm installing Rubinius from source. I've previously installed libyaml in /usr/local. Any of the following attempts detailed below fail with no shared object libyaml-0.so.2 found:

./configure --with-lib-dir /usr/local/lib

# same for

./configure --with-lib-dir /usr/local/lib --with-include-dir /usr/local/include

There is no need to point the lib dir to lib64 because locate libyaml shows libyaml is installed in /usr/local/lib

Answer 1

adding /usr/local/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH should work for you:

before configure do like this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH