From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-09-26T13:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [Ruby Forum] Ruby extconf.rb / autoconf (in?)compatibility

Hi,

At Sat, 25 Sep 2004 04:32:49 +0900,
Alexey Verkhovsky wrote in [ruby-talk:113667]:
> Unfortunately I cannot understand how to correctly pass this option on
> to ruby mkmf: 
> ruby extconf.rb 
> make 

They are decided at configuration time of ruby, but not at
extconf.

> I have seen that there is an option to make using 
> a DESTDIR variable such as: 
> make DESTDIR=$HOME/wherever/placetoinstall 
> 
> but then this creates deep directory structure 
> $HOME/wherever/placetoinstall/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/CompLearnLib 
> 
> and to me it seems that the /usr/local portion of the above path
> structure is redundant. Is there a way to remove it in the ruby mkmf
> extconf.rb structure? The best I can come up with so far is to use an mv
> and then an rm command to correct things, and this seems somewhat
> complicated and error-prone. 

DESTDIR is used to install files in a fake root by package
management systems.

-- 
Nobu Nakada