From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-03-20T06:49:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Can $LOAD_PATH be relative?

Hi --

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Patrick Bennett wrote:

> Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> >True, I could do those things, but I'm wondering how they managed to make 
> >$LOAD_PATH relative on Windows?
> >  
> >
> Because Ruby was coded to work that way.  Why it wasn't made to do it 
> under *nix, I have no idea.  I think it's a critical requirement, 
> otherwise having private copies of Ruby installs is impossible.  It will 
> always go to /usr/lib/ruby, etc. no matter where Ruby is run from.  
> After my message about this subject was ignored (Installation/Config 
> question), I decided to just write it myself and patch Ruby.

I've always been able to install private Rubies.  I just set --prefix
when ./configure'ing.  Does that not do what you need?


David

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