From: Ben Giddings <ben@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T05:57:33+09:00
Subject: Re: - where does it get its initial values?

On Wed August 6 2003 4:33 pm, Gennady wrote:
> 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:.

This may have been the cause of problems I had when using ruby-mysql.  My Ruby 
binary was compiled for generic i386, but mysql was compiled for i686 so it 
wanted to go in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/i686-linux.  The end result was 
that I had an i386-linux and an i686-linux directory, but only one was being 
searched.  I got around that by using -I and/or setting an environment 
variable... but it seems like it should be possible for Ruby to "figure this 
out".  Am I asking too much of it?

Ben