Hi,

At Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:21:41 +0900,
Michal Suchanek wrote in [ruby-core:10907]:
> I recently upgraded coreutils, and the location of install
> changed from /bin to /usr/bin.
> 
> The odd thing is that only ruby extensions failed to build,
> everything else seems fine.
> 
> It is because ruby resolves the path of install during build,
> and the etensin configuration uses that.

It is done by autoconf.  You need to run configure again in
such case.

> The correct solution is probably to store the user supplied
> hint - either '' or the path the user specified. That way the
> manual path can be preserver and the automatically resolved
> path could work even if the location changes.

Autoconf seems to dislike that "solution", since `install'
command and its options are not very portable,

-- 
Nobu Nakada