From: serialhex Date: 2011-08-24T06:50:12+09:00 Subject: Re: mkmf & config question --000e0cd349bcf515c504ab332d3f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Eric Hodel wrote: > DO NOT CHANGE THE ENTRIES IN RbConfig::CONFIG, IT WILL ONLY LEAD TO MADNESS > > Please explain why you want to change the prefix of ruby so we can answer > your question properly. > 'tis not i who wanted to enable this kind of madness... but a friend of mine with his open source project. he wants to be able to put the ruby modules that are generated into another dir for some reason that i don't quite understand... i'm guessing for different types of installs where one may want to install the modules in another location. i think he hacked something together but idk... hex -- my blog is cooler than yours: serialhex.github.com The wise man said: "Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." > > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I > > should use Linux over BSD? > > No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on > creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it > certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able > to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the > mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the > name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too > technical. -- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux --000e0cd349bcf515c504ab332d3f--