From: Mike Wyer <mike@...>
Date: 2003-04-05T01:10:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Relocatable install patch

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jim Freeze wrote:

> On Friday,  4 April 2003 at 23:23:23 +0900, Mike Wyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Mike Wyer wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This follows on from my "Tricky install question" earlier. This patch
> > > allows "make" to supply different values at build time and install time
> > > for key paths. So a
> > >
> > > ./configure --prefix=/foo
> > > make
> > > make PREFIX=/bar install
> >
> > First problem: it fails for ext/
> > I forgot about extmk.rb. Hopefully I should have something better soon :)
> >
>
> This is in the right direction for what I need, a binary install.
> I would like to make ruby on machine A and install on
> machine B.
>
> A: ./configure --prefix=/onA
> A; make
> now tar it up and send it to B
> B make PREFIX=/onB install
> but I want the whole install tree below /onB
> and I want it to look for libraries on /onB.
>
> Is this possible?

I'm not sure what I'm working towards will help you much. My scenario is:

B: ./configure --prefix=/onA/foo/ruby
B: make
B: make PREFIX=/onB/bar/ruby/install install

So the code always expects to run from /onA/foo even though it is being
built and installed on B.

Lots of the distributions are packaging ruby these days (SuSE for one).
They may already have solved the binary-relocation problem.

Cheers,
Mike
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