Rubygems install hook

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searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is there
not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?

regards.

-a

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Don't think so,

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/203058

Later,

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ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is there
not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?

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Bil Kleb
http://kleb.tadalist.com/lists/public/427170

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unknown wrote:

searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is
there
not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?

regards.

There is no provision in gems for pre/post install steps.

-- Jim Weirich

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Bil Kleb wrote:

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ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>
> searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is there
> not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?

Don't think so,

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/203058

Bummer. Ross Bamford does have a feature request in:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2890&group_id=126&atid=578

Regards,

Dan

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Please keep it that way. The only thing I'd *like* is a custom message
that can be printed.

-austin

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On 11/17/06, Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org> wrote:

unknown wrote:
> searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is
> there
> not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?
>
> regards.
There is no provision in gems for pre/post install steps.

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found a workaround

   spec.extensions = 'extconf.rb'

now, do whatever you like in extconf.rb

-a

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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

Bil Kleb wrote:

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is there
not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?

Don't think so,

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/203058

Bummer. Ross Bamford does have a feature request in:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2890&group_id=126&atid=578

--
my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. -- the dalai lama

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scratch that. doesn't work quite right.

-a

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On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

Bil Kleb wrote:

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is there
not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?

Don't think so,

  http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/203058

Bummer. Ross Bamford does have a feature request in:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2890&group_id=126&atid=578

found a workaround

spec.extensions = 'extconf.rb'

now, do whatever you like in extconf.rb

--
my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. -- the dalai lama

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I played around with the same idea before I made that feature request. It can be made to work, but you do have to generate a Makefile out of your extconf to get it to work without warnings. Also, you need to stick to the 'source in lib/' layout or it'll complain during install.

E.g.

# --- extconf.rb
require 'mkmf'

puts "This is my pre-install code"

create_makefile('test')

# --- test.gemspec
spec = Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = 'test'
   s.summary = 'extconf hack'
   s.description = 'testing extconf hack'
   s.version = '0.0.1'
   s.extensions << 'extconf.rb'

   s.files = ['lib/test.rb']
   s.require_path = 'lib'
end

$ su -c 'gem install test-0.0.1.gem'
Password:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ruby extconf.rb install test-0.0.1.gem
This is my pre-install code
creating Makefile

make
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make install
make: Nothing to be done for `install'.

make clean
Successfully installed test, version 0.0.1

It's messy, but I think it's a good argument for having pre/post hooks anyway - I understand the security concerns, but if we can do this extconf trick, isn't that academic anyway?

Cheers,

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On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:01:06 -0000, <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

Bil Kleb wrote:

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear: is there, or is there
not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?

Don't think so,
   http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/203058

Bummer. Ross Bamford does have a feature request in:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2890&group_id=126&atid=578

found a workaround

spec.extensions = 'extconf.rb'

now, do whatever you like in extconf.rb

scratch that. doesn't work quite right.

-a

--
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.remove.co.uk

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