From: James French Date: 2011-09-08T21:06:42+09:00 Subject: Re: help with LOAD_PATH when building from source on Mac OSX Lion On 8 Sep 2011, at 12:23, Marc Heiler wrote: > Why not pass the --prefix to configure when compiling? > > ./configure --prefix=~/buildtools/ruby/1.9.2 > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > Thanks, I wasn't sure how to do that. It required an absolute path but /Users/~/buildtools/ruby/1.9.2 did the trick and it can now load standard library files. Still having issues with gems but I am unblocked for the moment so thanks! I must say I'm surprised ruby doesn't set up its default paths relative to the ruby executable to prevent hard coding of location - means that we have to maintain a company standard folder (there are other folders before build tools that I didn't mention). Not a huge deal though. Thanks again! James