From: ranx <perl2ruby@...>
Date: 2007-03-25T13:00:23+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby18 vs. ruby

On Mar 24, 10:58 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am using the ruby-stable-snapshot on a more or less regualr basis
>  on a Gentoo Linux system. I do not install ruby via Gentoo's emerge
>  mechanism.
>
>  Suddenly all my ruby scripts stops to work. :)
>
>  I noticed, that ruby was not installed as "ruby" but as "ruby18".
>  My script's hash-bangs always are "#! /usr/bin/ruby".
>
>  How can I convince configure to install ruby as ruby?
>
>  I tried to set an environment variable "RUBY_INSTALL_NAME" but it
>  does not work (yes, it was "exported" :)
>
>  Thank you very much for any help in advance!
>
>  Kind regards,
>  mcc
>
>  PS: May be it would be an idea to name the archive on rubys
>  ftp-server like its contents:
>  snapshot.tgz ---> ruby-snapshot.tgz
>  stable-snapshot.tgz ---> ruby-stable-snapshot.tgz
>
>  ...one (at least me ;) downloads a LOT of snapshots, source archives
>  and so on. If not unpacked, configured,compiled, installed
>  right directly after download - it is confusing to have archives
>  "without name" like: source.tgz, stable-source.tgz, archive.zip,
>  my_distro.7z,.....
>
>  "That's four small chars for a ftp-server, one giant leap for rubykind." :)
>
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Can simply create a symbolic link called ruby that points to ruby18 as
follows:
ln -s /usr/bin/ruby18 /usr/bin/ruby