Install.rb (modified for bin programs)

i am sorry i do not know the orginal author to credit - but this is a modified
install.rb that installs anything found in ./bin into the same bin dir as ruby
(or that passed as ‘–bindir=’ from the command line). simple, but it works.

file: install.rb

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require ‘rbconfig’
require ‘find’
require ‘ftools’
include Config

LIBDIR = “lib”
LIBDIR_MODE = 0644

BINDIR = “bin”
BINDIR_MODE = 0755

$srcdir = CONFIG[“srcdir”]
$version = CONFIG[“MAJOR”]+“.”+CONFIG[“MINOR”]
$libdir = File.join(CONFIG[“libdir”], “ruby”, $version)
$archdir = File.join($libdir, CONFIG[“arch”])
$site_libdir = $:.find {|x| x =~ /site_ruby$/}
$bindir = CONFIG[“bindir”]

if !$site_libdir
$site_libdir = File.join($libdir, “site_ruby”)
elsif $site_libdir !~ %r/#{Regexp.quote($version)}/
$site_libdir = File.join($site_libdir, $version)
end

def install_rb(srcdir=nil, destdir=nil, mode=nil)
path =
dir =
Find.find(srcdir) do |f|
next unless FileTest.file?(f)
next if (f = f[srcdir.length+1…-1]) == nil
next if (/CVS$/ =~ File.dirname(f))
path.push f
dir |= [File.dirname(f)]
end
for f in dir
next if f == “.”
next if f == “CVS”
File::makedirs(File.join(destdir, f))
end
for f in path
next if (/~$/ =~ f)
next if (/^./ =~ File.basename(f))
File::install(File.join(srcdir, f), File.join(destdir, f), mode, true)
end
end

def ARGV.switch
return nil if self.empty?
arg = self.shift
return nil if arg == ‘–’
if arg =~ /^-(.)(.*)/
return arg if $1 == ‘-’
raise ‘unknown switch “-”’ if $2.index(‘-’)
self.unshift “-#{$2}” if $2.size > 0
“-#{$1}”
else
self.unshift arg
nil
end
end

def ARGV.req_arg
self.shift || raise(‘missing argument’)
end

main program

libdir = $site_libdir
bindir = $bindir

begin
while switch = ARGV.switch
case switch
when ‘-d’, ‘–destdir’
libdir = ARGV.req_arg
when ‘-l’, ‘–libdir’
libdir = ARGV.req_arg
when ‘-b’, ‘–bindir’
bindir = ARGV.req_arg
else
raise “unknown switch #{switch.dump}”
end
end
rescue
STDERR.puts $!.to_s
STDERR.puts File.basename($0) +
" -d " +
" -l " +
" -b "
exit 1
end

install_rb(LIBDIR, libdir, LIBDIR_MODE)
install_rb(BINDIR, bindir, BINDIR_MODE)

-a

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