From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-08-05T15:14:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Installer for Windows 1.8.2-14 **RC7**

Hi,

At Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:08:52 +0900,
Curt Hibbs wrote in [ruby-talk:108303]:
> I wanted to make these changes, but when I started to make the changes, it
> wasn't clear precisely what I was supposed to do. At that time I sent you a
> private email (to nobu.nokada@softhome.net) listing what I thought should be
> done and asking if that was correct, but I never got a response before I had
> to leave for my vacation.

Unfortunately, I've not received it.

> > > > No, eban says those environment variables are not need at all.
> > > > RubyInstaller should just set PATH, but not TCL_LIBRARY.  And
> > > > RUBY_{TCL,TK}_DLL are used only if tcltklib is compiled with
> > > > --enable-tcltk_stubs, but RubyInstaller doesn't.
> > >
> > > Good, I like that even better! I will change the installer to not set
> > > TCL_LIBRARY.
> >
> > Correction: It couldn't find tk.tcl file when it just is not
> > set.  It worked by moving tcl/lib/* to lib.
> >
> > Another issue, there are identical files under samples/sample
> > and doc/Tcl/Tk-1.8.1/sample, except for several files only in
> > the former.  Instead, *.{rb,so,lib} underneath lib are
> > superfluous, since they exist also under lib/ruby/1.8 and never
> > be used.
> 
> I am making changes to the ruby installer build in preparation for matz'
> 1.8.2 preview1, and I want to make sure that I correctly understand what you
> have said needs to be done to fix TCL/TK in the ruby installer. This is
> particularly important since I do not know anything about TCL/TK myself and
> I rely on others for this advice and eventual testing.
> 
> I think the easiest way to do this is to assume that my last release
> candidate, ruby182-14_rc3.exe, has been installed in the default location
> (c:\ruby), and I will then describe the changes I think need to be made
> using absolute paths. I'm fairly certain that this is wrong, but this is
> what I got determined from your emails:
> 
> DEL C:\ruby\lib\tcl*.*
> DEL C:\ruby\lib\tk*.*

And lib/{*-tk.rb,tk,tkextlib,README}.  In other words, not
install ext/tk there.

> MOVE DIR TREE C:\ruby\tcl\lib\
>            TO C:\ruby\lib

Also tcl\include, and remove samples/Tcl/Tk-1.8.1/sample then
move sample/sample to there.

> DO NOT SET VAR "TCL_LIBRARY"

And RUBY_TCL_DLL and RUBY_TK_DLL.

Or, you could configure with --enable-tcltk_stubs option; I
recommend this so that users can select other tcl/tk versions
and locations by the above two variables.

-- 
Nobu Nakada