From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2004-07-13T08:15:16+09:00
Subject: Re: make install not working under msys/mingw32

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> I'm upgrading my mingw32 ruby from 1.8.1 to the latest 1.9.0 snapshot. 
> The configure, make, and make test steps went fine, and I can run ruby 
> from the build dir:
> 
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.0 (2004-07-10) [i386-mingw32]
> 
> However, make install is not working. It quickly (_too_ quickly) runs 
> through the usual list of installs:
> 
> ./miniruby.exe ./instruby.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags="- 
> --unix" --make-flags=" --unix" --mantype="man"
> install -c -p -m 0755 ruby.exe /usr/local/bin/ruby.exe
> install -c -p -m 0755 rubyw.exe /usr/local/bin
> install -c -p -m 0755 msvcrt-ruby19.dll /usr/local/bin
> install -c -p -m 0755 libmsvcrt-ruby19.dll.a /usr/local/lib
> 
> and so on.
> 
> But nothing actually gets copied to /usr/local or to anywhere else in my 
> msys tree, for that matter (verified with find and with the windows 
> search util). There are no error messages.
> 
> If I run one of the install lines by itself, it works fine.
> 
> I put some tests in instruby.rb to make sure that $dryrun is not set, 
> and it's not.
> 
> Interestingly, the rdoc stuff _did_ install properly in 
> /usr/local/share/ri/1.9/system/. It's just the bin/ and lib/ files that 
> didn't make it.
> 
> Any ideas? Why is make install failing silently?

More information: it's not failing, exactly. It's installing to C:\. So 
ruby.exe goes to C:\usr\local\bin\ruby.exe, rather than 
C:\msys\1.0\local\bin\ruby.exe.

Maybe the problem is the --dest-dir="" option. Why isn't configure 
setting that properly? (There is apparently no manual way to set dest-dir.)

Or maybe the problem has to do with the msys mount point. My msys is set 
up to mount C:\msys\1.0 on /usr. But somehow the installer isn't 
recognizing that.