From: Steve Kelem <s_kelem@...>
Date: 2005-06-15T00:55:32+09:00
Subject: Re: trouble installing rubygems 0.8.10

Chad Fowler said the following on 6/14/2005 4:49 AM:
> On 6/13/05, Steve Kelem <s_kelem@pacbell.net> wrote:
> 
>>I'm trying to install rubygems-0.8.10 on ruby 1.8.2 on Cygwin.
>>
>>Any idea of what's wrong?
>>
>>Thanks for your help,
>>Steve Kelem
>>
>>   Here are the messages I get:
>>% ruby setup.rb
>>---> bin
>><--- bin
>>---> bin
>><--- bin
>>rm -f InstalledFiles
>>---> bin
>>mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/
>>install gem /usr/local/bin/
>>install gemwhich /usr/local/bin/
>>install gem_server /usr/local/bin/
>>install generate_yaml_index.rb /usr/local/bin/
>>install update_rubygems /usr/local/bin/
>><--- bin
>>
> 
> 
> For some reason, it stopped installing after 'bin'.  It should have
> installed everything under "lib" as well.  I'm not a Cygwin user these
> days, and I don't have a machine handy to test it on.  Anyone else
> using Cygwin who could say whether this is a problem that all Cygwin
> users will experience?
> 
> Steve, can you verify that there is indeed a "lib" directory in the
> rubygems-0.8.10 source you have untarred?
Why, no.  There isn't one!
% ls
ChangeLog  README  Rakefile  Releases  TODO  bin/  doc/  examples/  post-install.rb  setup.rb

It was a problem with my unpacking the sources improperly!  (tar xzvf rubygems-0.8.10.tgz | head)

Now it's working.  Thanks for the help!

Steve