From: Marko Schulz <in6x059@...>
Date: 2003-08-07T07:02:04+09:00
Subject: Re: - where does it get its initial values?

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:57:33AM +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:
> 
> 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?

Even though you compile it for i686, the installer should know, that
he has to put it in /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/i386-linux. This is
AFAIK what mkmf.rb does, by using rbconfig: It queries the paths, ruby
was build with.

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marko schulz