From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@...>
Date: 2006-09-21T08:55:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ubuntu and Log4r

Phlip wrote:
> jansenh wrote:
> 
>> When I search for the Log4r files, I find them in
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/log4r-1.0.5/
> 
> Ubuntu shares with Mandriva an idiotic "--prefix bug". Not sure if the bug's 
> on the Ruby side or the Linux side. Heres' the workaround:
> 
> $ ll /usr/local/lib/ruby
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13 Sep 13 20:13 /usr/local/lib/ruby -> 
> /usr/lib/ruby/
> 
> I just used ln -s to link the one folder to the other.
> 
> BTW Ubuntu had so many other Ruby problems I switched to Mandriva. For, uh, 
> less of them. ;-)
> 
configure and build and install ruby with --prefix=/usr
then rm /usr/bin/ruby
then ln -s /usr/bin/ruby-1.8 /usr/bin/ruby

then install gems
then use gems to install whatever gems you need.