Problem installing ruby in a local (home) directory

“make test” succeeds, but then I get the following error on “make
install”
(the install prefix is my home directory):

./miniruby ./ext/extmk.rb --dest-dir="" --make=“make” --mflags=""
–make-flags="" --extout=".ext" --extension --extstatic – install
cp -r ./.ext/. /home/mbrooks/lib/ruby/1.8
/home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:1239:in copy': unknown file type: ./.ext/. (RuntimeError) from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:447:incopy_entry’
from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:1308:in traverse' from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:445:incopy_entry’
from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:423:in cp_r' from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:1379:infu_each_src_dest’
from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:1393:in
fu_each_src_dest0' from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:1377:infu_each_src_dest’
from /home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:422:in `cp_r’
from ./ext/extmk.rb:386
make: *** [do-install-ext] Error 1

Jonathan M. [email protected]

Hi,

At Wed, 31 May 2006 00:06:44 +0900,
Jonathan M Brooks JMBROOK2 wrote in [ruby-talk:195191]:

“make test” succeeds, but then I get the following error on “make install”
(the install prefix is my home directory):

./miniruby ./ext/extmk.rb --dest-dir="" --make=“make” --mflags=""
–make-flags="" --extout=".ext" --extension --extstatic – install
cp -r ./.ext/. /home/mbrooks/lib/ruby/1.8
/home/mbrooks/ruby/lib/fileutils.rb:1239:in `copy’: unknown file type:
./.ext/. (RuntimeError)

What does this command show?

./miniruby -ve ‘ARGV.each{|d|puts “#{d.inspect} => #{File.ftype(d)},
#{File.directory?(d)}”}’ . ./.ext ./.ext/.