From: Zach <zacharooni@...>
Date: 2006-01-06T05:22:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't find ruby after installation


jason r tibbetts wrote:

> Nirav wrote:
>
>> I skipped ruby selection while installing mandrake 10.1 with an
>> intention of building the latest version (1.8.3).
>> After untarring the download in /usr/local/src, I followed README (1.
>> ../configure 2. make 3. and optional make test (successful)).
>> "which ruby" returns ruby: but I can't find ruby in /usr/local/bin or
>> /usr/local/lib.
>>
>> Where is it? 
>
>
> It's probably in your current working directory (i.e. from wherever 
> you called 'which ruby'). To make sure, take a look at the Makefile 
> that was generated by configure. Search for the 'prefix' variable 
> about a dozen lines from the top.
>
>
>
During the .configure you can pass the parameters to set that at runtime 
too, I'm not sure if it was as short as --PREFIX=myPath or not but it 
was that simple.

-Zach