Changing the installation prefix to the lib after configure/make/makeinstall

[llothar]

Lets say i compile ruby on Unix with

../configure --prefix=$HOME/my_ruby; make; make install

And later i want to move it to $HOME/your_ruby
What can i do to get the inital paths for the standart library to also
refer to
the new location.

The RUBYLIB_PREFIX environment variable (which i expected to use)
is obsoleted.

 

[Eric Hodel]

Lets say i compile ruby on Unix with

./configure --prefix=$HOME/my_ruby; make; make install

And later i want to move it to $HOME/your_ruby
What can i do to get the inital paths for the standart library to also
refer to the new location.

/configure --prefix=$HOME/your_ruby; make; make install

Otherwise, anything depending upon Config::CONFIG will break.

 

[llothar]

/configure --prefix=$HOME/your_ruby; make; make install

Otherwise, anything depending upon Config::CONFIG will break.

Well or there is some way to patch the new path into Config::CONFIG?

How can i add a ruby interpreter to an application that can move
around
(for example on a USB Stick)?

Fixing CONFIG["prefix"] and CONFIG["configure_args"] is simple but i
see that in "config.h" the paths are really hard coded. That sucks.

Can't we change this? I do not see any reason for this inflexibility.
I don't understand why RUBYLIB_PREFIX was removed (well it was never
implemented
on Unix just Win32).