> On another note, having tools like this in the standard distribution
> (like MakeMaker is for perl) would really eliminate a lot of the problems.

I agree. In fact, it never occured to me before, but why isn't setup.rb
a part of the Ruby distibution?

Well, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it yet. I may re-write
it. The code looks more like C than Ruby and I find it difficult to
work on (I still haven't figured out where the prefix is worked-in
exactly). Have any interested in such a project?

T.