From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-05-31T01:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem installing ruby in a local (home) directory.

Hi,

At Wed, 31 May 2006 00:06:44 +0900,
Jonathan M Brooks JMBROOK2 wrote in [ruby-talk:195191]:
> "make test" succeeds, but then I get the following error on "make install"
> (the install prefix is my home directory):
> 
> ./miniruby ./ext/extmk.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags=""
> --make-flags="" --extout=".ext" --extension  --extstatic  -- install
> cp -r ./.ext/. /home/mbrooks/lib/ruby/1.8
> /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:1239:in `copy': unknown file type:
> ./.ext/. (RuntimeError)

What does this command show?

  ./miniruby -ve 'ARGV.each{|d|puts "#{d.inspect} => #{File.ftype(d)}, #{File.directory?(d)}"}' . ./.ext ./.ext/.

-- 
Nobu Nakada