From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T07:08:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Unintentional hype of Ruby irb and ri

On Thursday 30 March 2006 12:59 pm, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> i manage about 50 machines and we've taken the compile route - however,
> since all the boxes see a common nfs mount we install only once there.

Hmm, interesting idea--tell me more:

   * Is that partition mounted as one of the standard partitions (/usr...) or 
something else?

   * Do you have to do anything on each of those 50 machines, or just mount 
the NFS partition--hmm, I guess you'd at least have to add something to the 
PATH of each user (at least, if a non-standard partition)?

I might try this, or even on a local non-standard partition (I guess I just 
have to set the prefix appropriately).

This might solve some problems for me--I'm trying to get TkHTML working for 
me, and by now I'm concerned that I've tried so many things I've created more 
problems for myself--I could start completely over on a new partition.

Then I guess I'd have to do the ./configure --prefix=dst && make && sudo make 
install process for:

Ruby
tcltk (or ActiveTcl)
TkHTML (although in reading the instructions for this I realize there are some 
special things to deal with, like the "parallel" bld directory)

More info:

Part of my problem is that I've compiled Ruby, then installed ActiveTcl, and I 
don't know how to uninstall something that I installed by compiling.  
ActiveTcl seemed to have an uninstall.tcl script, but that failed for me.  I 
guess I'll just go around and delete all files and directories that look like 
they have anything to do with Ruby, tcltk, ActiveTcl, or TkHTML, and then 
start over.

This is on a Mandriva2006 system.  I don't know whether the rpms on Mandriva 
are to blame in any way--I suspect most of the problem(s) are just my 
ignorance/inexperience in setting something like this up.

Randy Kramer