From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T23:01:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing a program Unix-like

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:05:00PM +0900, Malte Milatz wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I don't want to be forced to imagine that every Ruby programmer writes
> > his own script, in which he moves the appropriate files into
> > /usr/local/bin, -share, -lib, -man etc.
> 
> It's time that I thank everybody who replied to my question; I think
> setup.rb is the thing I need. Maybe together with some other things that
> are based on it, or which install the doc's.

Quick hack, just to show you how easy it is (note that this is for an
older version; you had better modify the sources of setup.rb instead of
the generated file itself).

batsman@tux-chan:~/src/rdocsite$ diff -u install.rb.old install.rb
--- install.rb.old      2004-01-20 14:44:47.000000000 +0100
+++ install.rb  2004-01-20 14:50:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@
     [ 'data-dir',  [ '$prefix/share',
                      'path',
                      'the directory for shared data' ] ],
+    [ 'doc-dir',  [ '$prefix/share/doc',
+                     'path',
+                     'the directory for documentation' ] ],
     [ 'ruby-path', [ rubypath,
                      'path',
                      'path to set to #! line' ] ],
@@ -472,7 +475,7 @@
   end


-  FILETYPES = %w( bin lib ext data )
+  FILETYPES = %w( bin lib ext data doc )

   include FileOperations

@@ -610,6 +613,9 @@
   def config_dir_data( rel )
   end

+  def config_dir_doc( rel )
+  end
+
   #
   # TASK setup
   #
@@ -656,6 +662,9 @@
   def setup_dir_data( relpath )
   end

+  def setup_dir_doc( relpath )
+  end
+
   #
   # TASK install
   #
@@ -684,6 +693,11 @@
     install_files target_filenames(), config('data-dir') + '/' + rel, 0644
   end

+  def install_dir_doc( rel )
+    install_files target_filenames(), config('doc-dir') + '/' + rel, 0644
+  end
+
+
   def install_files( list, dest, mode )
     mkdir_p dest, @options['install-prefix']
     list.each do |fname|
@@ -776,6 +790,9 @@
   def clean_dir_data( rel )
   end

+  def clean_dir_doc( rel )
+  end
+
   #
   # TASK distclean
   #
@@ -799,6 +816,9 @@
   def distclean_dir_data( rel )
   end

+  def distclean_dir_doc( rel )
+  end
+
   #
   # lib
   #

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