From: Nikolai Lugovoi Date: 2010-03-18T01:58:20+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:28718] [Bug #2978] TMP_RUBY_PREFIX sets incorrect values in gem prelude for ruby installed in $HOME Bug #2978: TMP_RUBY_PREFIX sets incorrect values in gem prelude for ruby installed in $HOME http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2978 Author: Nikolai Lugovoi Status: Open, Priority: Normal ruby -v: 1.9.2dev (2010-03-17 trunk 26961) [i686-linux] For ruby (r26961), built and installed with configure --prefix=$HOME, I see odd values in Gem::ConfigMap that do not allow to load installed rubygems, see sample irb session: irb(main):001:0> Gem::ConfigMap => {:EXEEXT=>"", :RUBY_SO_NAME=>"ruby", :arch=>"i686-linux", :bindir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/bin", :libdir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/lib", :ruby_install_name=>"ruby", :ruby_version=>"1.9.1", :rubylibprefix=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/lib/ruby", :sitedir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby", :sitelibdir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1"} irb(main):002:0> Gem.path => ["/home/nlugovoi/.gem/ruby/1.9.1", "/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1"] irb(main):003:0> Gem.clear_paths => nil irb(main):004:0> Gem::ConfigMap => {:EXEEXT=>"", :RUBY_SO_NAME=>"ruby", :arch=>"i686-linux", :bindir=>"/home/nlugovoi/bin", :libdir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib", :ruby_install_name=>"ruby", :ruby_version=>"1.9.1", :rubylibprefix=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby", :sitedir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/site_ruby", :sitelibdir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1", :datadir=>"/home/nlugovoi/share", :vendordir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby", :vendorlibdir=>"/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.9.1"} irb(main):005:0> Gem.path => ["/home/nlugovoi/.gem/ruby/1.9.1", "/home/nlugovoi/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1"] So, at the moment of loading, Gem::ConfigMap points to wrong directories, :rubylibprefix=>"$HOME/lib/ruby/lib/ruby" instead of :rubylibprefix=>"$HOME/lib/ruby", and fixes that only after Gem.clear_paths And that comes from from following code: ruby.c:448: rb_const_set(rb_cObject, rb_intern_const("TMP_RUBY_PREFIX"), rb_obj_freeze(rb_str_new(RUBY_LIB_PREFIX, sizeof(RUBY_LIB_PREFIX)-1))); Issue was introduced in changeset r26881 , and r26880 works without such problem. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org