From: Jamis Buck <jamis_buck@...>
Date: 2005-01-26T03:58:55+09:00
Subject: Re: SQLite-Ruby and Cygwin: Problem and Solution

On 03:32 Wed 26 Jan     , Jim Weirich wrote:
> 
> 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

Wonderful! I should have known you gems guys would already have
figured this one out. :)

So, for future reference, if you are installing sqlite-ruby via gems
and you have sqlite installed in a location other than /usr, try:

  gem install sqlite-ruby -- --with-sqlite-lib=/usr/local/lib
          --with-sqlite-include=/usr/local/include

- Jamis

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