On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:36:38 -0800, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk / gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got my gtk headers (and ruby) installed in a subdirectory in my home dir.
> 
> I'm trying to build the ruby-gnome bindings, but the (I think)
> pkgconfig part fails to find where I'm hiding the gnome headers/libs.
> How can I tell it where the gnome files are?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 

Generally, what I do with autoconf is
./configure --prefix=$HOME/mine_linux 
where $HOME/mine_linux is where I install various linux packages.

But 
ruby extconf.rb --prefix=$HOME/mine-linux 
didn't work either.