From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...>
Date: 2007-06-21T23:23:37+09:00
Subject: Re: how to installed ruby in diffrent directory

On 6/21/07, Ting Zhang <ting.zhang@db.com> wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> I am new to ruby, I want to installed ruby on workstation. But I am not  a
> super user and  I don't have the access to /user/local. So I need to
> change everything refer to /user/local/ to /home/fixpb.
>
> I try to find every file contain /user/local under ruby directory and
> change them . I change the configure.h. I change everything I can find but
> still doesn't work. I am really frustrated now and need your
> help. Thanks!

Why don't you do:
 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/ruby?

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Felipe Contreras