On 6 January 2011 22:30, Bollinger, John C <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > Hello All, > > Today I have been looking into DESTDIR usage for the other language bindings > supported by OpenBabel. I am reporting my findings for discussion here > before filing any more bug reports on the topic: > > 2) Ruby -- The mkmf-generated Makefile for the Ruby binding supports DESTDIR, > but OpenBabel's installation rules have coopted it for their own purposes. > The rules as written don't achieve the result described in the installation > docs, however. To get that, the generation of the Makefile needs to be > managed. That is, the install location needs to be configured into the > generated Makefile. If that were done then DESTDIR would be available for > its conventional purpose, and the rules for the Ruby bindings would then also > be more consistent with those for the Perl and Python bindings.
I've added support for DESTDIR for the Ruby bindings. Unfortunately, mkmf doesn't seem to support any mechanism for specifying --prefix (and believe me, I tried a few - I also note that someone has started a mkmf2 project because of these and other shortcomings) so we still need to continue co-opting DESTDIR for this purpose. In any case, the previous behaviour is maintained and now it also supports DESTDIR. - Noel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-Devel mailing list OpenBabel-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-devel
