From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-06-18T13:37:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17313] Re: miniruby dependencies broken in 1.9


On Jun 17, 2008, at 04:16 , Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:42:20 +0900,
> Ryan Davis wrote in [ruby-core:17297]:
>>> miniruby$(EXEEXT) doesn't equal to $(PREP) always.
>>
>> I didn't see any conditionals... is it set to something else
>> elsewhere? I was only digging through common.mk.
>
> It set as fake.rb for cross compiling in configure.in.

Ah. OK... Would you like me to roll back those changes? Or, is there a  
better way to tell which ones should not be PREP?

>>> And do you really want to compile miniruby before clean, even
>>> nothing is compiled?
>>
>> I know it has in the past. :)
>>
>> Well... I dunno. I do want make clean to work... but I don't know a
>> better way other than removing the use of miniruby and going back to
>> ba/sh. ick.
>>
>> We can certainly change this. How would you like it?
>
> One safe and easy way is to separate the build directory from
> the source directory, so that you can just remove the former
> wholely.

that sounds big. bigger than I'm comfortable with in ruby's make setup.