From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-03-04T01:54:48+09:00
Subject: Re: non-root binary distribution

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
>>Is there a binary .tar.gz or a relocatable RPM for ruby 1.8.x which can 
>>be installed onto a custom per-user directory without requiring root 
>>privilege? I find it easy to do this with the mswin32 version.
> 
> Ruby embeds absolute load paths, for the sake of UNIX tradition
> and security issue.
> 
> However, it might not be major problem if $SAFE == 0, so you
> could make relocatable binary with the following path and
> --enable-load-relative configure option, if you use /proc fs on
> linux.

Thanks, it works beautifully. The only thing left is that a user needs 
to do:

  % LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/his/ruby/lib /path/to/his/ruby/bin/ruby

(or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in his ~/.bash_profile) otherwise ruby can't 
find libruby.so. Is there a way to avoid/get around this?

-- 
dave