From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T05:33:51+09:00
Subject: Re: - where does it get its initial values?

They are figured out during Ruby build by configure and then hardcoded into
the resulting executable. If your ruby is installed in /usr/local you can
check it with

$ strings /usr/local/bin/ruby | grep /usr/local
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i686-linux
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux
/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/bin:.

Gennady.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tuan Bui" <tuanbui@cray.com.nospam>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:23 PM
Subject: $: - where does it get its initial values?


> Howdy,
>
> Where does $: get its values from?  The book says that it contains an
> array of places to search for loaded files and that it is "initialized
> to the list of standard directories, plus any additional ones you
> specify using RUBYLIB and -I."  Where does ruby get these standard
> directories?  I realize that I can set up RUBYLIB in my environment if I
> want to search directories I specify, but I am mystified as to the
> origin of the directories originally in $: .  Any help would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Tuan
>
>
>