From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2009-04-06T02:50:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get "irb1.8" using Ruby1.8 instead of Ruby1.9.1 ?

El Domingo 05 Abril 2009, Ken Bloom escribió:
> > Thanks. As I've explained in this thread, I had Ruby1.8 installed as DEB
> > package (so irb was a link to irb1.8). When compiling and installing
> > Ruby1.9.1 from sources, it created /usr/bin/ruby and /usr/bin/irb.
> > But it's strange since /usr/bin/irb was a softlink and after Ruby 1.9.1
> > install it remains being a softlink to irb1.8, but irb1.8 is now a copy
> > of the installed irb (Ruby 1.9.1).
>
> So you're saying that when you installed irb from source, it overwrote
> the TARGET of the /usr/bin/irb link rather than the /usr/bin/irb link
> itself. That's really wierd.

Yes, wierd and really strange, I can't imagine how a "make install" process 
can do that instead of overwritting the softlink "irb" as a new binary.


> The solution would be to
> "apt-get install --reinstall irb1.8", but note that you'll probably lose
> irb 1.9 by doing that. (See other posts for information about better ways
> to arrange how things are set up on your system.)

Yes, already done and fixed ;)

Thanks.


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Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net>