Installing Programs with setup.rb ================================= Quick Start ----------- Type this (You might needs super user previledge): ($ su) # ruby setup.rb If you want to install a program in to your home directory ($HOME), use following instead: $ ruby setup.rb all --prefix=$HOME Detailed Installtion Process ---------------------------- setup.rb invokes installation by three steps. There are "config", "setup" and "install". You can invoke each steps separately as following: $ ruby setup.rb config $ ruby setup.rb setup # ruby setup.rb install You can controll installation process by giving detailed options for each tasks. For example, --bin-dir=$HOME/bin let setup.rb install commands in $HOME/bin. For details, see "Task Options". Global Options -------------- "Global Option" is a command line option which you can use for all tasks. You must give a global option before any task name. -q,--quiet suppress message outputs --verbose output messages verbosely (default) -h,--help prints help and quit -v,--version prints version and quit --copyright prints copyright and quit Tasks ----- These are acceptable tasks: all Invokes `config', `setup', then `install'. Task options for all is same with config. config Checks and saves configurations. show Prints current configurations. setup Compiles ruby extentions. install Installs files. clean Removes created files. distclean Removes all created files. Task Options for CONFIG/ALL --------------------------- --prefix=PATH a prefix of the installing directory path --stdruby=PATH the directory for standard ruby libraries --siterubycommon=PATH the directory for version-independent non-standard ruby libraries --siteruby=PATH the directory for non-standard ruby libraries --bindir=PATH the directory for commands --rbdir=PATH the directory for ruby scripts --sodir=PATH the directory for ruby extentions --datadir=PATH the directory for shared data --rubypath=PATH path to set to #! line --rubyprog=PATH the ruby program using for installation --makeprog=NAME the make program to compile ruby extentions --without-ext forces to setup.rb never to compile/install ruby extentions. --rbconfig=PATH your rbconfig.rb to load You can view default values of these options by typing $ ruby setup.rb --help If there's the directory named "packages", You can also use these options: --with=NAME,NAME,NAME... Package names which you want to install. --without=NAME,NAME,NAME... Package names which you do not want to install. [NOTE] You can pass options for extconf.rb like this: ruby setup.rb config -- --with-tklib=/usr/lib/libtk-ja.so.8.0 Task Options for INSTALL ------------------------ --no-harm prints what to do and done nothing really. --prefix=PATH The prefix of the installing directory path. This option may help binary package maintainers. A default value is an empty string.