From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2002-12-07T05:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: install.rb

Hi,

  In mail "Re: install.rb"
    Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@yahoo.se> wrote:

> > There are so many people who want to install packages in their
> > home directory (e.g. /home/aamine/lib).
> > 
> >   $ ruby install.rb config --prefix=$HOME
> > 
> > is useful for this purpose.
> 
> How do you then configure Ruby to find the packages there? Could that
> configuration be used by the install script in some way?

You can use environment variable $RUBYLIB for such purpose.

  sh
  $ export RUBYLIB=$HOME/lib/ruby

  csh
  $ setenv RUBYLIB=$HOME/lib/ruby

  Win9x
  > set RUBYLIB=C:\aamine\lib\ruby

  WinNT
  (Procedure too long; aborted :-)

-- Minero Aoki