On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Ben Woodcroft <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 24/06/15 22:19, Thompson, David wrote: >> >> Perhaps ruby should >> be a propagated input for packages with ruby executables, or scripts >> could be wrapped in another script that set the correct environment >> variables. > > A naive question - I don't believe that this is required for e.g. python > packages that have executables and the somewhat analogous PYTHONPATH. Why is > Ruby different?
The Python build system creates wrappers around all executables that sets the proper PYTHONPATH. I'm not a big fan of this approach, but something similar will probably need to be done for Ruby if we can't find a better way. - Dave
