From: llothar <llothar@...>
Date: 2008-03-22T08:50:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Changing the installation prefix to the lib after 	configure/make/make install

On 22 Mrz., 06:23, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2008, at 15:25 PM, llothar wrote:
>
> > Lets say i compile ruby on Unix with
>
> > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/my_ruby;  make; make install
>
> > And later i want to move it to $HOME/your_ruby
> > What can i do to get the inital paths for the standart library to also
> > refer to the new location.
>
> /configure --prefix=$HOME/your_ruby; make; make install
>
> Otherwise, anything depending upon Config::CONFIG will break.

Well or there is some way to patch the new path into Config::CONFIG?

How can i add a ruby interpreter to an application that can move
around
(for example on a USB Stick)?

Fixing CONFIG["prefix"] and CONFIG["configure_args"] is simple but i
see that in "config.h" the paths are really hard coded. That sucks.

Can't we change this? I do not see any reason for this inflexibility.
I don't understand why RUBYLIB_PREFIX was removed (well it was never
implemented
on Unix just Win32).