From: Shiwei Zhang <shiwei.zhang@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T17:00:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Install ruby on linux cluster from shared disk -- can I just "make install" on next server?

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It depends on what your "identical linux servers" mean? If they are 
really identical you can omit the step "./configure" at the second 
server. Actually the default "./configure" makes prefix=/usr/local. 
I.e., You just put the source files on the shared file system and in 
fact you installed the ruby on local.
More importantly I think, no matter whether your servers are identical, 
it is right to issue the command "./configure" again on the shared file 
system  from the second server. It will do nothing harmful, even if the 
2nd server is a little different with the 1st node.

Shiwei
(The views expressed are my own and not necessarily those of Oracle and 
its affiliates.)

bradjpeek wrote:

>I'm having second thoughts on the approach I've started down for
>installing ruby on some Linux servers and would appreciate some
>input...
>
>I have two small clusters of identical Linux servers, each cluster
>shares a file system named /scratch.
>
>I have downloaded and extracted the ruby tar file to /scratch :
>
>[root@s8270a17 ruby-1.8.5-p2]# pwd
>/scratch/ruby-1.8.5-p2
>
>I installed ruby as usual on the first node (s8270a17) in the cluster.
> The question I have is "Can I just go to the next server in the
>cluster and do "make install", or do I need to start back at the
>./configure ?".
>
>And along the same line, if I do start back at the ./configure will the
>fact that it has already been run on a "different" server screw
>anything up?
>
>
>  
>

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