is there a generic way to find out where the ruby.h file is located?
Until now I was using something like
ruby -rrbconfig -e "print Config::CONFIG[‘archdir’]
which worked on the systems I have tested (with ruby 1.6.something
preinstalled).
The last check I did was with ruby 1.8.0 (compiled from sources), and I
always get
ruby: No such file to load – rbconfig (LoadError)
Am I doing something wrong here or is this just a ruby bug?
cheers
Oliver
P.S.: my ruby 1.8.0 was configured with
…/configure --prefix=/xxx/local --exec-prefix=/xxx/local/intel-linux
because the filesystem is used by different OS/architectures
./configure --prefix=/xxx/local --exec-prefix=/xxx/local/intel-linux
[…]
what’s wrong with that?
ruby use internally --prefix to locate libraries
OK, I see, thanks.
The problem is indeed resolvable by adding a symbolic link from
${prefix}/lib/ruby/1.8 to ${exec-prefix}/lib/ruby/1.8.
pkgdatadir would probably be a location more suitable for the .rb files
coming with ruby (instead of pkglibdir), but since I want to check
existing ruby installations (from an autoconf script), I have to live with
the way it is done now.
Anyway it’s a bit surprising that configuring ruby doesn’t work the way
one would expect, but maybe this will be resolved in future versions.
that configuring ruby doesn’t work the way