From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T03:32:15+09:00
Subject: Re: SQLite-Ruby and Cygwin: Problem and Solution


Jamis Buck said:
> 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..
>
> Chad, Jim, et. al.: is there a way (or could there be a way) to allow
> the gem command to take optional parameters that get passed through
> directly to the extconf.rb script?

Just add the extconf.rb options to the gem install command after a "--".

See http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/106092

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