[ruby-talk:15113] Porting Ruby Applications to OpenBSD

Hello Everyone!

I have a problem that I need to get resolved in some fashion. It may be my
own ignorance / maybe not. Either way the problem is preventing the 
incorporation of ruby applications from getting into the OpenBSD ports
tree.

The problem seems to revolve around ruby install scripts and the way 
Ruby handles DESTDIR in rbconfig.rb. I have posted a question about this
in the past.

Basically I need a way to configure installs such that I can do an installation
in a seperate directory as well as where it will finally end up. The 
ports system uses a directory and tries to perform a install into whats
called the fake-i386 directory structure. Then afterwards a package can be 
built from what was installed there. 

Now I have not been able to get this to behave on a regular basis. It seems 
as though DESTDIR is potentially ignored. I tried the following in 
rbconfig.rb

  DESTDIR = ENV["DESTDIR"]
  CONFIG = {}
  TOPDIR = File.dirname(__FILE__).sub!(%r'/lib/ruby/1\.6/i386\-openbsd2\.8\Z', '
')
  CONFIG["srcdir"] = "/usr/local/src/ruby-1.6.3"
  if (DESTDIR)
        CONFIG["prefix"] = DESTDIR + "/usr/local"
  else
        CONFIG["prefix"] = TOPDIR
  end


rather than what is already there:

  DESTDIR = '' if not defined? DESTDIR
  CONFIG = {}
  TOPDIR = File.dirname(__FILE__).sub!(%r'/lib/ruby/1\.6/i386\-openbsd2\.8\Z', '
')
  CONFIG["srcdir"] = "/usr/local/src/ruby-1.6.3"
  CONFIG["prefix"] = (TOPDIR || DESTDIR + "/usr/local")

It seemed as though the change myself and a friend tried was working and
allowing things to get put where they needed to to make ports packaging 
work appropriately, but just as we were getting ready to send this in as
a potential patch, i tried getting one more thing to install and it would
not work until i put things back the way they were in rbconfig.rb.

Now I admit this needs more looking at, but my time is running short these
last few weeks as my wife and I are expecting a new baby shortly 8) I was 
wondering if anyone familiar with OpenBSD and Ruby on this list or otherwise
interested parties in seeing Ruby Applications make their way into the ports
tree would be willing to help figure something out here to make things easier.

Thanks again to everyone! Im just another Ruby lovin ol perl hackin *NIX guy
trying to do my part to spread Ruby as much as I can through getting things
into the ports tree under my favorite OS currently!

Thanks in Advance for any suggestions or cures that people may be able to 
provide.

-ray
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