From: Erik Veenstra <google@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T02:45:49+09:00
Subject: Re: SQLite-Ruby and Cygwin: Problem and Solution

> > I added just one single line to ext/extconf.rb
> > ('dir_config( "sqlite", "/usr/local" )'), compiled the
> > whole thing and build the gem. This one was indeed
> > installable!
>
> Non-standard install locations are problematic for compiled
> gems (like sqlite-ruby). If you installed by hand, you could
> easily specify the necessary "--with-sqlite-lib" and
> "--with-sqlite-include" parameters to the install script, but
> with gems..

Non-standard location? "/usr/local/bin" and "/usr/local/lib"
seem pretty standard to me... That's what SQLite decided to
use, anyway.

Thanks.

gegroet,
Erik V.