From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2002-01-03T04:26:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30070] Re: Build question: options for configure?

ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) writes:

> I'm going to be helping someone build/install Ruby 1.6.6 on Solaris and 
> she doesn't have root access so the plan is to install Ruby in her home 
> directory instead of the default installation, so we want Ruby and all of 
> it's libs to be in a directory on /home like:
> /home/ptkwt/ruby-1.6.6
> 
> instead of at /usr/local/lib
> 
> Are there any options to the configure script to do this or do we just 
> have to edit the resulting Makefile?

Absolutely. For example, I installed ruby in my home directory one time. I
forget the exact name of the option; it's something like "--prefix" or
"--install-dir". Look at the configure script.

Jim
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