From: Paul Emmons <pemmons@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T05:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie installation problem: libraries?

On Tue, 18 May 2004 18:45:27 GMT, Tim Hunter <cyclists@nc.rr.com>
wrote:

>ruby -e 'puts $:.join("\n")'
>
>On my Mandrake system the output looks like this:
>
>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux
>/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
>/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
>/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux

Yes, that's what I see; but most of these directories are empty. 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i686-linux has:
config.h  rbconfig.rb

and that's all.

I installed from a tarball.  Is an RPM easier?

When I first ran CONFIGURE, it exited and closed out my whole
terminal.  Perhaps I misunderstood the "run ./configure" in the
README.  It's executable, so I should have typed "configure" rather
than ". configure". 

Then I discovered from the log file that a file or two needed to be in
a different directory than it was in.  I'm afraid I can't recall what
these files were or where I had to copy them.

I could start all over if I were sure how to uninstall first.  Would
that be make realclean?

Thank you for replying, and so quickly!