Backport #1941
closedIssues with Ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 383 and any package installation
Description
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Working on updating RubyInstaller packages to recently released patchlevel 383, found that my patching strategies over rbconfig no longer works.
On previous patchlevel (368), I configure ruby with my sandbox path, and once installed, gsub it from rbconfig, leaving this:
CONFIG["prefix"] = (TOPDIR || DESTDIR + "")
Where my path was inside "".
Since TOPDIR refers to rbconfig.rb itself (but with stripped path), prefix end being always the path where Ruby ends installed/copied.
DESTDIR ends not being used for the prefix, and it's value turns to be "C:"
Now, bear with me for a second, on p368:
CONFIG["libdir"] = "$(exec_prefix)/lib"
CONFIG["exec_prefix"] = "$(prefix)"
But on p383:
CONFIG["exec_prefix"] = "$(DESTDIR)"
This affects installation of rubygems and packages that uses setup.rb
Other places that uses $(DESTDIR) instead of previous values:
CONFIG["sitedir"] = "$(DESTDIR)/lib/ruby/site_ruby"
Wonder why the change, if DESTDIR was not used during make, why remove the usage of prefix on this case?
Thank you.
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