Install into $HOME fails

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I don't know how to install Ruby into my home directory. Looking
at the Makefile, I thought that

   make prefix=$HOME install

should do the job, but make still tries to install into /usr/local
(which fails because I don't have write-access there).

Any easy work-around to this?

Ronald

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I believe you need to specify the prefix on the ./configure step:

../configure --prefix=$HOME

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u235321044@spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net (Ronald Fischer) writes:

I don't know how to install Ruby into my home directory. Looking
at the Makefile, I thought that

   make prefix=$HOME install

should do the job, but make still tries to install into /usr/local
(which fails because I don't have write-access there).

Any easy work-around to this?

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

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> I don't know how to install Ruby into my home directory. Looking
> at the Makefile, I thought that
>
> make prefix=$HOME install
>
> should do the job, but make still tries to install into /usr/local
> (which fails because I don't have write-access there).

/configure --prefix=$HOME

Thank you, this works.

It would be great if this information could be put into the README.

Ronald

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u235321044@spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net (Ronald Fischer) writes:

> I don't know how to install Ruby into my home directory. Looking
> at the Makefile, I thought that
>
> make prefix=$HOME install
>
> should do the job, but make still tries to install into /usr/local
> (which fails because I don't have write-access there).

/configure --prefix=$HOME

Thank you, this works.

It would be great if this information could be put into the README.

The README says to run ./configure to generate the Makefile.
../configure --help tells you all the configure options.

The configure script, and its --help option, is standard for things
that use autoconf (lots of stuff in the free software world). I guess
it couldn't hurt to mention --help in the README, though.