From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T06:35:43+09:00
Subject: Re: - where does it get its initial values?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marko Schulz" <in6x059@public.uni-hamburg.de>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: - where does it get its initial values?


> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:33:51AM +0900, 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
>   :
>
> How do you know, all strings with /usr/local in the ruby-executable
> make up this path? Isn't easier, just to print out $: without any
> -I or RUBYLIB?

I did not mention that they ALL make up LOADPATH, I just showed the way to
see that whatever makes up the default path is hardcoded during make
process.


>
> $ (unset RUBYLIB; ruby -e 'p $:')
> ["/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.6",
"/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.6/i386-linux", "/usr/local/lib/site_ruby",
"/usr/lib/ruby/1.6", "/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i386-linux", "."]
>

The original question was just this: why $: is what it is?


> -- 
> marko schulz
>
>