From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-04-06T17:30:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Tricky install question

Hi,

At Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:34:20 +0900,
Mike Wyer wrote:
> > > So ruby must assume it's going to be running from
> > > /prod/language/ruby/1.6.8, but it has to install into
> > > /dev/language/ruby/1.6.8/install
> > >
> > > Is there an easy way of persuading instruby to do the right thing in this
> > > situation?
> > >
> > > Setting DESTDIR to /dev gives /dev/prod/language/ruby/1.6.8/ which is no
> > > good :)
> >
> > If your system supports symbolic link, you could use it.
> 
> The /prod environment is read-only (hence the staging mechanism), so
> symlinks won't do the trick.

I meant symlink under /dev.

$ ln -s . /dev/prod
$ make DESTDIR=/dev install

> I think instruby.rb is not designed for this
> kind of install, but I would love to be wrong!

You are not wrong.  instruby.rb just prepends $(DESTDIR) to
$(prefix).

-- 
Nobu Nakada