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[ruby-talk:04264] Re: patch: path trimming in configure

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-28 16:59:20 UTC
List: ruby-talk #4264
Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:04254] patch: path trimming in configure"
    on 00/07/28, Aleksi Niemel<aleksi.niemela@cinnober.com> writes:

|Configure handles path literally at least for --prefix and appends it's
|relative path as '/include', not plain 'include'.
|
|Thus I thought to say --prefix=/home/my_home/test_bed, but then I though
|about root dir and decided the path should be /home/my_home/test_bed/ so
|that root is specified as --prefix=/. Trailing '/' causes ruby to -I
|(nclude) and install to /home/my_home/test_bed//bin. This causes no problems
|(dunno why unix allows this), but seems quite ackward, so I made following
|patch which removes trailing slash from prefix option.

Ignoring consequence slashes is UNIX spec. I think.  Since I don't
generate configure, autoconf does, this patch should be sent to
autoconf people anyway.

							matz.

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