I've got installations of 1.8.7p334 and 1.9.3p0 in /usr/local. But there's a conflict in the location of one installed lib...
Configure ruby 1.9.3 with:
./configure --program-suffix=19
Then 'make install' installs libruby-static.a to:
/usr/local/lib/libruby-static.a
This conflicts with an existing 1.8.7 installation. The conflict appears in an extension's extconf.rb when calling
have_func('rb_thread_blocking_region')
which should fail for 1.8.7. (This happens with the eventmachine gem.)
Is there some configure argument that will give libruby-static.a some suffix for the 1.9.3 installation?
Should I use --libdir to keep all of 1.9.3 separate from 1.8.7?
Any other suggestions (other than rvm)?