From: Michal Papis Date: 2012-03-07T15:16:10+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:43110] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6121][Open] [[Ruby 1.9:]] Etc.sysconfdir hides sysconfdir on windows Issue #6121 has been reported by Michal Papis. ---------------------------------------- Bug #6121: [[Ruby 1.9:]] Etc.sysconfdir hides sysconfdir on windows https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6121 Author: Michal Papis Status: Open Priority: Low Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p125 (2012-02-16 revision 34643) [x86_64-linux] While checking on this issue https://gist.github.com/1981223 I found out that Etc.sysconfdir is inconsistently behaving between Linux and Windows. This issue is related to rubygems also: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/pull/291 On linux you can change sysconfdir with: --sysconfdir --prefix and the calculated path will be available for rubygems and via Etc.sysconfdir But on Windows users have no option to force a sysconfdir, they will always use default location (~ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data). Also this is not consistent to the documentation header for this function. Is this intended behavior ? I could see few occasions where it should be supported to allow switching to system location even --prefix / --sysconfdir was used, but this should be rather configurable not a forced setting. Even if this is not being implemented/fixed could I get a statement if it is good for rubygems to follow Etc.sysconfdir behavior or it should rather using RbConfig::CONFIG['sysconfdir'] ? -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/