From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-08-02T10:08:27+09:00
Subject: Re: extconf.rb search path

Hi,

In message "Re: extconf.rb search path"
    on Tue, 2 Aug 2005 09:54:19 +0900, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> writes:

|Whenever I run extconf.rb for gnome2, it compiles against the gnome
|libraries found in /usr.  I want it to compile against the gnome
|libraries found in /usr/local.  Isn't that what it should do by
|default?

It's according to your compiler's default priority.  Blame the
compiler.  You can specify the dir prefix by options to extconf.rb,
such as

  ruby extconf.rb --with-opt-dir=/usr/local

							matz.