From: Matthew PATTISON <mfp@...>
Date: 2002-04-22T15:00:25+09:00
Subject: Problem installing algebra package, where do the files go?

Hi,

This is very much a newbie question. I've tried installing the algebra package
in Windows, the instructions just say to put the files in <algebra>/lib/*.rb 
in a directory where they can be loaded by Ruby, so I put them in 
  <ruby>/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/algebra

but when I typed 
  require 'algebra'
in my script, it couldn't find the file to load.

So I put all the <algebra>/lib/*.rb files in directly in the <...>site_ruby/1.6
directory, which I don't really like, but it seemed to work *sort of*, in the 
sense that it takes about 4 minutes to run the sample script 
sample-diagonalization01.rb from <algebra>/samples, and produces the following 
warning in it's output:

(eval):1: warning: already initialized constant AUTO_LOAD 

Am I doing something wrong? I'm not used to simple scripts taking minutes to 
execute. (I'm running Windows 2000 on a pentium II 266 with 128Mb RAM, FYI)
Thanks,

Matt