From: Luis Lavena <redmine@...>
Date: 2009-08-16T13:45:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24934] [Bug #1941] Issues with Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 383 and any package installation

Bug #1941: Issues with Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 383 and any package installation
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1941

Author: Luis Lavena
Status: Open, Priority: High
Assigned to: Kirk Haines
ruby -v: ruby 1.8.6 (2009-08-04 patchlevel 383) [i386-mingw32]

Working on updating RubyInstaller packages to recently released patchlevel 383, found that my patching strategies over rbconfig no longer works.

On previous patchlevel (368), I configure ruby with my sandbox path, and once installed, gsub it from rbconfig, leaving this:

CONFIG["prefix"] = (TOPDIR || DESTDIR + "")

Where my path was inside "".

Since TOPDIR refers to rbconfig.rb itself (but with stripped path), prefix end being always the path where Ruby ends installed/copied.

DESTDIR ends not being used for the prefix, and it's value turns to be "C:"

Now, bear with me for a second, on p368:

CONFIG["libdir"] = "$(exec_prefix)/lib"
CONFIG["exec_prefix"] = "$(prefix)"

But on p383:

CONFIG["exec_prefix"] = "$(DESTDIR)"

This affects installation of rubygems and packages that uses setup.rb

Other places that uses $(DESTDIR) instead of previous values:

CONFIG["sitedir"] = "$(DESTDIR)/lib/ruby/site_ruby"

Wonder why the change, if DESTDIR was not used during make, why remove the usage of prefix on this case?

Thank you.


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