From: "Mr. Sunblade" <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-06-01T02:22:25+09:00
Subject: mkmf question - conditional installs

Hi all,

This is probably an easy one.

I have two extensions I'm working on.  Both .c files (we'll call them x.c
and y.c) are in the same directory.  One of these files I want to install
*only* if it isn't already installed.  So, I wrote my extconf.rb file like
this:

require 'mkmf'

begin
   require 'x'
rescue LoadError
   create_makefile('x') # Here 'x' is a file
end

create_makefile('x/y') # Here 'x' is a directory

When I try to run "ruby extconf.rb", I get:

mkmf.rb:427:in `create_makefile': undefined method `join' for "y.o
x.o":String (NameError)
        from extconf.rb:9

Any ideas?  Thanks.

Dan