On Friday 14 November 2008 18:55:42 Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was packaging up rubygems 1.3.1 fo use at my work and it appears that the
> setup.rb behavior has changed since 1.2.0.

What distro are you packaging for? I just went through some RPM packaging work 
with 1.3.1 and so i might already have something you can use.

Thanks!
Donavan

>
> in 1.2.0:
>
>   ./setup.rb --destdir=/fakeroot/location
>
> Items get installed into:
>
>   /fakeroot/location/usr/bin
>   /fakeroot/location/usr/lib
>
> in 1.3.1 ( and 1.3.0 )
>
>   ./setup.rb --destdir=/fakeroot/location
>
> Items get installed into:
>
>   /fakeroot/location/bin
>   /fakeroot/location/lib
>
> Is the purpose now, if you want to use destdir, that you are required to
> also use --prefix?   I don't know about others, but for me, --destdir
> means setting where '/' is supposed to be, and then rubygems should
> install relative to that as normal.
>
> The bug for me is all in :
>
>   unless install_destdir.empty?
>     top_dir = Pathname.new(RbConfig::TOPDIR)
>     lib_dir_p = Pathname.new(lib_dir)
>     bin_dir_p = Pathname.new(bin_dir)
>
>     lib_dir = File.join install_destdir,
> lib_dir_p.relative_path_from(top_dir) bin_dir = File.join install_destdir,
> bin_dir_p.relative_path_from(top_dir) end
>
> I'm thinking it should really be:
>
>     top_dir = Pathname.new(RbConfig::TOPDIR).parent
>
> thoughts?
>
> enjoy,
>
> -jeremy


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