From: "Nicolas Desprès" <nicolas.despres@...>
Date: 2007-02-05T16:43:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing 1.8.5 but getting unknown file type ./.ext/

On 2/5/07, Zane Vohland <zcvohland@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>
> Thanks Nicolas... that seems to work for me... though now "make install"
> stops at this line:
>
> cp -r ./.ext/. /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
>
> Does this mean ruby 1.8.5 was installed successfuly, I thought it would
> comment if it was installed successfuly. Or does this indicate another
> problem?
>

No, that's fine.

> When I type:
>  >>ruby --version
>
> It still prints out: 1.8.1.
>

Check that /usr/local/bin appears first in your PATH env var.

> I have also noticed I have 3 ruby directories:
>
> /sw/lib/ruby/1.8
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
>
> The first directory (/sw/lib/ruby/1.8) I think is the original(1.8.1)
> because I remeber seeing it there before attempting to install version
> 1.8.5. I know that the last directory (usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8) is the
> new one which was created when attempting to install 1.8.5 and I am not
> sure about the second directory (/usr/lib/ruby/1.8), wether it is new or
> old.
>

You might be right. If you didn't specify --prefix to the configure
script it uses /usr/local as default value.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Despr�s