From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-01-05T18:57:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21127] Re: [Bug #951] "make DESTDIR=... install" creates dirs outside DESTDIR

Hi,

At Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:32:30 +0900,
Luis Lavena wrote in [ruby-core:21112]:
> Checking the changes introduced in lib/rubygems.rb
> (Gem.find_home and others), you removed the code that lookup
> for user profile using ENV and rely on expansion of "~"
> 
> I believe those changes are only valid for 1.9, correct?

And 1.8.7.  Also, it's backported to 1.8.6 at patchlevel 127.

> I'll like to point that those couldn't be backported to
> rubygems repository, since in 1.8, on Windows, that doesn't
> work.

It may not be safe for 1.8.6, indeed.

-- 
Nobu Nakada