From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-09-13T01:04:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Missing includes with 1.6 install on win32?

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:19:46PM +0900, Paul E.C. Melis wrote:
> 
> "Lyle Johnson" <lyle@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
> news:3D7FF789.2010408@users.sourceforge.net...
> > Did you look under:
> >
> > %DESTDIR%\lib\ruby\1.6\i586-mswin32
> >
> > That's where they should have been installed.
> >
> 
> Hmmm, ok, that's where they are located indeed. But why all the way down
> there?
> 
> Paul

So you can have a ruby installation sitting on a network drive with
multiple computer architectures pulling from the same ruby library
DESTDIR.  The shared libraries are arch specific.  The windows pentium
machine will look in i586-mswin32, a linux machine would look in
i386-linux (or i586 depending on optimization I think), and so forth.

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