Jyri Virkki wrote:
> Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote:
>   
>> Is not possible to have a user level rbconfig.rb. As in 
>> $HOME/.rbconfig.rb that would override the system level. In this case, 
>> the users could then copy either rbconfig.rb.sun_studio or 
>> rbconfig.rb.gcc as their $HOME/.rbconfig.rb.
>>     
>
> Did you mean "not possible" or "possible" in the first sentence?
> Sounds like the latter?
>
> Still, most people won't know to do that before using gem so having it
> work out of the box is valuable (though documenting the above is good too).
>   

Thats correct - the point is to make it work out of the box, and to 
provide an option for folks who actually have the interest to know about 
rbconfig.rb's existence. 
 -ps


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