comp.lang.ruby

Michael Fellinger

6/27/2007 1:38:00 AM

On 6/27/07, John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> With gcc you can build & install in /home/myname/opt/gcc and then tar it
> up and deliver to your colleagues /opt directory and it seems to work.
>
> They have been pretty careful about using relative paths everywhere.
>
> Note to Self: Don't do that with ruby on Linux. You end up with
> /home/myname/opt hard coded in the ruby executable, especially in the
> include path $:
>
> Curiously enough it seems to do The Right Thing in the code for DOSISH
> and CYGWIN platforms... but that will do lots of wrong things in other
> places for the linux platform.
>

./configure --prefix=/opt --enable-shared --enable-pthread
make
make DESTDIR=/home/manveru/tempruby install
#generate the ri docs
make DESTDIR=/home/manveru/tempruby install-doc

slightly modified from http://rubyu...
hope that sheds more light on your problem... dunno how you tried it.

> Bottom line. Note to Self:
>
> Don't do that.