Solaris Install: Non-standard location

Were I able to install at the default location,
things would be golden. Unfortunately, that's
not an option.

My first attempt at installing failed horribly.
(Couldn't access GetoptLong, for instance, because
the site variables are pointing to the default location.)

I'm gearing up to try again.

There seem to be two ways to do it:

  * Do things manually
  * Specify command lone options when running configure

   2) Specify command line options when running configure.

     This seems like the right way to go, but there are
     /many/ options (below). The ones I could maybe use
     are:

     --with-sitedir=DIR site libraries in DIR
                         Default: PREFIX/lib/ruby/site_ruby

     (But I set PREFIX when I ran make last time!)

     I tried doing the build without the special instructions,
     and ran into an error when the script tried to do this:

          mkdir -p -m 755 /usr/local/lib

     That fails, here. But there is no option that looks useful.
     (list below) They all default to PREFIX/... and I set that
     on makefile command line.

OPTION 1: Do things manually

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The process seems to be
   a) Run configure to create config.h and the Makefile.
   b) Edit config.h to set the environment variables. (??)
   c) Build, specifying the destination options:
      % make install prefix=/foo

I did (a) and (c) last time, but not (b).

The important values seem to be at the end of config.h:

#define RUBY_LIB "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8"
#define RUBY_SITE_LIB "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby"
#define RUBY_SITE_LIB2 "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8"
#define RUBY_PLATFORM "sparc-solaris2.9"
#define RUBY_ARCHLIB "/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9"
#define RUBY_SITE_ARCHLIB
    "/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9"

Do I just set change "/usr/local/lib" to my target destination?

OPTION 2: Specify command line options when running configure
-------------------------------------------------------------
Fine tuning of the installation directories:
   --bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
   --sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
   --libexecdir=DIR program executables [EPREFIX/libexec]
   --datadir=DIR read-only architecture-independent data
                          [PREFIX/share]
   --sysconfdir=DIR read-only single-machine data [PREFIX/etc]
   --sharedstatedir=DIR modifiable architecture-independent data
                          [PREFIX/com]
   --localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [PREFIX/var]
   --libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib]
   --includedir=DIR C header files [PREFIX/include]
   --oldincludedir=DIR C header files for non-gcc [/usr/include]
   --infodir=DIR info documentation [PREFIX/info]
   --mandir=DIR man documentation [PREFIX/man]

Program names:
   --program-prefix=PREFIX prepend PREFIX to installed program names
   --program-suffix=SUFFIX append SUFFIX to installed program names
   --program-transform-name=PROGRAM
                               run sed PROGRAM on installed program names

System types:
   --build=BUILD configure for building on BUILD [guessed]
   --host=HOST cross-compile to build programs to run on HOST
                     [BUILD]
   --target=TARGET configure for building compilers for TARGET [HOST]

Optional Features:
   --disable-FEATURE do not include FEATURE
                           (same as --enable-FEATURE=no)
   --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
   --enable-frame-address use GCC __builtin_frame_address().
   --disable-largefile omit support for large files
   --enable-pthread use pthread library.
   --enable-setreuid use setreuid()/setregid() according to need
                           even if obsolete.
   --disable-rpath embed run path into extension libraries.
   --enable-shared build a shared library for Ruby.
   --enable-install-doc build and install rdoc indexes during install

Optional Packages:
   --with-PACKAGE[=ARG] use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]
   --without-PACKAGE do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no)
   --without-gcc never use gcc
   --with-default-kcode=CODE specify default value for \$KCODE
                           (utf8|euc|sjis|none)
   --with-dln-a-out use dln_a_out if possible
   --with-static-linked-ext link external modules statically
   --with-sitedir=DIR site libraries in DIR
                           PREFIX/lib/ruby/site_ruby
   --with-search-path=DIR specify the additional search path
   --with-mantype=TYPE specify man page type; TYPE is one of man and doc

Some influential environment variables:
   CC C compiler command
   CFLAGS C compiler flags
   LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a
               nonstandard directory <lib dir>
   CPPFLAGS C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have
               headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir>
   CPP C preprocessor

Eric Armstrong wrote:

Were I able to install at the default location,
things would be golden. Unfortunately, that's
not an option.

make distclean
./configure --prefix=/wherever/you/want
make
make install

Add /wherever/you/want to your $PATH.

That should work.

Regards,

Dan

don't forget to do both both of these before compiling

   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/whenever/you/want/lib
   LD_RUN_PATH=/whenever/you/want/lib # this one most important!

if you do this all the stuff you compile it will inter-operate nicely - eg
ruby extensions. also, other users will be able to use your ruby without
having their LD_LIBRARY_PATH set - they'll only require PATH.

regards.

-a

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On Sat, 13 May 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

Eric Armstrong wrote:

Were I able to install at the default location,
things would be golden. Unfortunately, that's
not an option.

make distclean
./configure --prefix=/wherever/you/want
make
make install

Add /wherever/you/want to your $PATH.

--
be kind whenever possible... it is always possible.
- h.h. the 14th dali lama

Thanks, Dan!

Daniel Berger wrote:

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Eric Armstrong wrote:

Were I able to install at the default location,
things would be golden. Unfortunately, that's
not an option.

make distclean
./configure --prefix=/wherever/you/want
make
make install

Add /wherever/you/want to your $PATH.

That should work.

Regards,

Dan

Many, many thanks for the help, folks.
I'm beginning to find my way around.
Now then...

Daniel Berger wrote:

Eric Armstrong needed:

make distclean
./configure --prefix=/wherever/you/want
make
make install

Add /wherever/you/want to your $PATH.

Aha. I need to specify --prefix in the configure
step. Didn't see that bit of information anywhere.

The default make target in the next step is "all",
which really means "build without installing".

But I'm not sure how to read the install target.
I see this in the makefile:

install: install-nodoc $(RDOCTARGET)
install-all: install-nodoc install-doc

Install-all sounds like the one I want to get the
documentation. But install seems to be doing
something similar.

But when I took a deeper look I found that RDOCTARGET
defaults to null, and it's not used anywhere else in the
makefile. So it looks like:

  * RDOCSTARGET and the reference to it should be
    removed from the Makefile

  * install-all is the target I want

Is that about right?

I don't see these settings in config.h or the Makefile,
so they must be environment settings?

But if they're environment settings, the targets they'e
pointing to don't exist yet.

What am I missing?

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ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

On Sat, 13 May 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:

make distclean
./configure --prefix=/wherever/you/want
make
make install

Add /wherever/you/want to your $PATH.

don't forget to do both both of these before compiling

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/wherever/you/want/lib
  LD_RUN_PATH=/wherever/you/want/lib # this one most important!

if you do this all the stuff you compile it will inter-operate nicely - eg
ruby extensions. also, other users will be able to use your ruby without
having their LD_LIBRARY_PATH set - they'll only require PATH.