On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:30:52 +0900 Dave Thomas <dave / pragprog.com> wrote: > Matz is concerned about the bandwidth overhead of this. Ok...FWIW, we (cise.ufl.edu) would be glad to be a ruby mirror for any dist necessary... > The testruby.rb script handles all this by messing around with dynamic > load paths. If I knew what DESTDIR even did I might be able to work on > this. Perhaps someone out there might be able to help me out. I can check it out and see. DESTDIR traditionally prepends a path to the default install path make install DESTDIR=/some/where installs the package (with /usr/local as the default install) into /some/where/usr/local In our setup, we manage our software with depot from CMU, so all of our packages go in a collection space (e.g., /depot/c0/ruby-1.8.0), which is then linked into /usr/local by the depot program. Anyway, I'll see what I can do to make it work. Jim