From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T03:23:56+09:00
Subject: Re: SQLite-Ruby and Cygwin: Problem and Solution

On 02:45 Wed 26 Jan     , Erik Veenstra wrote:
> > > 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.

As compared to "/usr/bin" and "/usr/lib", I meant. By default, that's
what the mkmf.rb lib uses. You can pass parameters to specify
otherwise (--with-sqlite-lib, etc) to extconf.rb, but not to the gem
utility. Yet. To my knowledge. :)

- Jamis

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