From: "Nicolas Desprès" <nicolas.despres@...>
Date: 2007-02-04T21:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing 1.8.5 but getting unknown file type ./.ext/

On 2/4/07, Zane Vohland <zcvohland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lyle Johnson wrote:
[...]
>
> I did infact try to update to 1.8.5 but I receive an error message when
> I try to "make install". I run through the commands normally:
>    ./configure
>    make test
>       >>I get a nice "test succeded"
>    make install
>
> Make Install runs through a heap of stuff nicely but then stumbles on
> this:
>
>
> ./miniruby ./ext/extmk.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags=""
> --make-flags="" --extout=".ext" --extension  --extstatic  -- install
> cp -r ./.ext/. /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
> /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1239:in `copy':
> unknown file type: ./.ext/. (RuntimeError)
>         from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:447:in
> `copy_entry'
>         from
> /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1308:in `traverse'
>         from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:445:in
> `copy_entry'
>         from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:423:in
> `cp_r'
>         from
> /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1379:in
> `fu_each_src_dest'
>         from
> /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1393:in
> `fu_each_src_dest0'
>         from
> /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1377:in
> `fu_each_src_dest'
>         from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:422:in
> `cp_r'
>         from ./ext/extmk.rb:389
> make: *** [do-install-ext] Error 1
>
> That has got me stumped... I went to the fileutils.rb script and checked
> it out but I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing.
>
> Has anyone else came across this error?
>

Yes.

.ext is not created during the make process of ruby-1.8.5-p12 as it
does with ruby-1.8.4. Actually, I don't understand why...

-- 
Nicolas Despr�s