On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, hipster wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001  06:14:34 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> > A couple of years back I reorganized my machine so I no longer need
> > root access to install common packages. I created a directory tree
> > (which I own), in my case starting at '/tc'. I then configure the
> > packages with
> >     ./configure --prefix=/tc/usr
> or, for multi-user machines where one cannot write /, create a ~/usr,
> configure with
>   configure --prefix=$HOME/usr
> and add ~/usr/bin to $PATH.

I personally set it to plain $HOME.
(Why do you put that extra "usr"?)

I also have relevant additions to PATH, LIBRARY_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
C_INCLUDE_PATH, CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH, CLASSPATH, ...

But I haven't configured that for Ruby yet, and btw -- how do I make a
Ruby package (that uses extconf.rb) install itself in $HOME even though
Ruby is ./configured with --prefix=/opt (or /usr) ?

matju