From: Jim Bob <invalid@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T17:18:12+09:00
Subject: Problems installing cvs ruby to user dir

Hi,
I am trying to install cvs ruby 1.8 to my home directory. I configure
with --prefix=/home/jimbob, and all compiles well, and begins to install
just fine, with the binaries going to ~/bin, the core modules to ~/lib, 
etc.

However, when the install gets to the modules in the ext/ dir, it begins
trying to install these to /usr/local/lib/ruby/. This, of course, fails
when I am running as a normal user.

I can make even this part of the install succeed by doing "make
DESTDIR=/home/jimbob install", but this seems a little bit of a kludge,
since the ext/ modules then end up in ~/usr/local/lib/ruby/(etc,etc). It
seems there should be a way to force them into the ~/lib with the "core"
modules. Any advice?