From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-01-21T07:21:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing a program Unix-like

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:15:43AM +0900, Zachary P. Landau wrote:
> > Quick hack, just to show you how easy it is (note that this is for an
> > older version; you had better modify the sources of setup.rb instead of
> > the generated file itself).
> > 
> >      [ 'data-dir',  [ '$prefix/share',
> >                       'path',
> >                       'the directory for shared data' ] ],
> > +    [ 'doc-dir',  [ '$prefix/share/doc',
> > +                     'path',
> > +                     'the directory for documentation' ] ],
> 
> Please excuse my Windows ignorance, but what is a common default for
> $prefix under Win32? 

IIRC $prefix would be the directory Ruby was installed into, 
e.g.  c:\ruby, i.e. you would get
  c:\
  	ruby
		bin/
		lib/
		....
		share/

Don't trust me on this however --- I'm happy I got rid of Win32 and I'm
trying my best to forget it.

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