From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T21:07:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Building ruby in a path independent fashion

On 4/13/07, MD <manasd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I noticed that when I build and install ruby/gems, the path is hard
> coded in the scripts. This causes a problem when I build on say an AIX
> machine A and want to run the interpreter on AIX machine B. Is there
> any way for the interpreter to be built in a path independent fashion?
>

In general this is only possible with OS linker support (liko on OS
X). The interpreter needs its dynamic libraries, and paths to these is
traditionally hardcoded on unix-like OSes. If you place the
interpreter in a different place linking usually breaks. But once you
have interpreters on both systems you can look for extensions in
various places. I am not sure about the gem loading but normal
extensions can be loaded from anyplace you like.

Thanks

Michal