On Jan 19, 2009, at 07:47 , Han Holl wrote:
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 ?
generally a blown build just sits there with a build log file so you
can diagnose the problem. Do a regular install, let it blow up, cd
into the gem dir, add your files/patches needed, and finish the build
(make/rake as appropriate, depending on how the gem extension is
packaged up). It builds in the same location it is going to run from,
so you should be good.
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