Hi,

At Sat, 24 Jul 2004 05:49:48 +0900,
Paul Brannan wrote in [ruby-talk:107314]:
> Questions:
> 
>   1. Why has CONFIG['srcdir'] gone away?

Because it has no meanings after installation.

>   2. Why is CONFIG['abs_srcdir'] set to the value it is?  Will this be
>      fixed?

Just not noticed.  Variables whose value starts with ac_ are
all useless?


Index: mkconfig.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/mkconfig.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -2 -p -r1.37 mkconfig.rb
--- mkconfig.rb	21 Mar 2004 23:21:29 -0000	1.37
+++ mkconfig.rb	30 Jul 2004 10:02:33 -0000
@@ -43,4 +43,5 @@ File.foreach "config.status" do |line|
     val = $2 || ""
     next if /^(INSTALL|DEFS|configure_input|srcdir|top_srcdir)$/ =~ name
+    next if /^\$\(ac_[a-z0-9_]+\)$/ =~ val
     next if $install_name and /^RUBY_INSTALL_NAME$/ =~ name
     next if $so_name and /^RUBY_SO_NAME$/ =~  name


-- 
Nobu Nakada