I built a horrible tool called gem repackager, which works well for
this on win32. On *nix it often requires root to run, but that depends
on the permission of your gem tree.
It needs a lot of love, but it worked great for the time when I needed
it for win32, and should work on *nix systems too.
I'm accepting patches / improvements as they come about, it's really
had very little time put into it, and is now very old.
Later this month, I should get around to putting it into a git repo,
giving it some tests, and a new set of rake tasks, and push it as a
gem to the libraggi project, which is where most of this toy / util
stuff is gunna live.
http://gem-repackager.rubyforge.org/svn/
Finally, feel free to ping me off the list with any questions you
have, if you feel it's appropriate.
HTH
On 19 Jan 2009, at 15:47, Han Holl wrote:
Hi,
I want to install a gem, but it doesn't build on my platform.
I fix the C-source, and submit a patch to the owner.
But I want to go on, and not wait for the maintainer to apply my
patch.
How can I rebuild the gem, and install.
I tried to untar the original gem, untar data.tar.gz, drop in my .c
file, and
tar it up again, but this doesn't work. I get an error message the
some
directory already exists. I rm -rf'ed everything in the gem
directory tree
that belonged to this gem, but still the same error.
Is there a way to do this ?
Cheers,
Han Holl
PS It may be relevant that I try this on a ruby-1.9.1 in /usr/local/
bin, with
ruby-1.8.6 in /usr/bin.
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