From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-10-01T23:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems user install of extensions

Hi,

At Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:44:20 +0900,
Dimitri Aivaliotis wrote in [ruby-talk:216293]:
> My problem is that I am trying to run a gems installation as a non-root
> user, and this doesn't work out-of-the-box for any gems that include the
> building of extensions with mkmf.  For each gem (example: mongrel), I need
> to add the following lines to extconf.rb:
> 
> require 'etc'
> user = ENV['USER']
> group = Etc.getpwnam(user).gid
> 
> module Config
>   MAKEFILE_CONFIG["INSTALL"] = "/usr/bin/install -c -o #{user} -g #{group}"
> end

INSTALL should not have -o and -g options by default.  Why do
you need those options?  Does your /usr/bin/install want to
change owner and group even if run by a non-root user?

-- 
Nobu Nakada