[ruby-core:23523] Re: [Bug #1504] installed ri docu is not where ri actually searches when compiled with program-suffix

On May 22, 2009, at 03:22, Yugui (Yuki Sonoda) wrote:
> Here is another problem. Where is the best location to place ri
> documents for Ruby 1.9.2 or later?
>
> On Ruby 1.9.2, --program-suffix and --program-prefix do not act on the
> path to ruby libraries nor on the name of shared library. (r23368,
> r23508). You must use --with-soname or --with-rubylibprefix in order  
> to
> modify them. Then, should ri does like this?
>
> Suppose that --prefix=/usr/local and --program-suffix=-1.9.1,
> (1) /usr/local/share/ri-1.9.1/1.9.1/
> (2) /usr/local/share/ri/1.9.1/       (and you can modify it via
> --with-riprefix)
>
> Which is better? what do you think?

2 is better, it matches the RubyGems behavior for > 1.9.1.