Hello Felipe,
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:10:02PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following the guidelines to package a ruby C extension[1], one comes
> up with this simple extconf.rb:
>
> require 'mkmf'
> create_makefile("Test")
>
> But then, when installing it goes to:
>
> /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/x86_64-linux
>
> This is clearly wrong, since /usr/local is not allowed for packages.
> This is because ruby was configured with
> --with-sitedir=/usr/local/lib/site_ruby, which is wrong.If you are building/installing the package by hand (ruby mkmf.rb && make && make install), that's actually the correct behavior. If you are creating a Debian package with gem2deb/dh_ruby, and you still got the files installed in /usr/local, I would like to look at your package because it might be a bug in gem2deb. > So what is a package supposed to do? There's no information at all for > packages using mkmf. Shouldn't the ruby package be fixed? building such a package with dh_ruby shoult Just Workâ˘. If it doesn't, we need to wee the package source to figure out. -- Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]>
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