From: culley harrelson <culley@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T07:52:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8 in the freebsd ports tree

> What is /usr/local/bin/ruby linked to? ruby16 or ruby18?  If it is
> linked to ruby16, you'll need to switch it to ruby18 (and irb, maybe
> something else too, or reinstall, if you're paranoid) since it seems
> that not every ruby port has been updated to use RUBY_VER.  Once
> you do this, all new ports should install themselves as 1.8 ports.
> 
> You need to do this because the port setup scripts (port script, setup.rb,
> install.rb) sometimes use /usr/local/lib/ruby (rather than 16 or
> 18 specifically) so will get installed into whichever tree your
> /usr/local/bin/ruby belongs to.
> 

I am currently linked to ruby16.  I was under the impression that some 
of the freebsd plumbing was dependent on ruby16 and switching these 
could possibly cause some trouble.  Only one way to find out eh?

culley