From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-18T05:34:07+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems install hook

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Bil Kleb wrote:
>> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>>>
>>> searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear:  is there, or is there
>>> not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?
>>
>> Don't think so,
>>
>>   http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/203058
>
> Bummer.  Ross Bamford does have a feature request in:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2890&group_id=126&atid=578

found a workaround

   spec.extensions = 'extconf.rb'


now, do whatever you like in extconf.rb

-a
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