From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-27T06:30:49+09:00
Subject: Re: gem - install to different bindir?

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jeremy Kemper wrote:

> Ah, I see, we have different problems.  I want RubyGems to use the same
> paths and naming options I configured Ruby with; you want RubyGems to
> respect the 'apparent' Ruby bindir.

you mean rubygems doesn't use rbconfig!?

> I think you may simplify your install by eliminating the symlinks, using
> --program-suffix, and adding each bindir to your $PATH.  Then, so long as
> RubyGems uses the same install options as Ruby, your gem installs would
> 'just work'.
>
> For example, with --prefix=/usr/local/ruby19 and --program-suffix=19
>  gem19 install rake
> could create
>  /usr/local/ruby19/bin/rake19

the location i'm installing to is mounted by 50 nodes what already have the
bindir it their path... i'm loath to have to modify 50 .bashrc files...  uggh.


-a
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