On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Daniel Berger wrote:
>
>> Bil Kleb wrote:
>>> ara.t.howard / noaa.gov wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> searching the docs and archives - i'm still unclear:  is there, or is 
>>>> there
>>>> not a way to have gems run pre-post install steps?
>>> 
>>> Don't think so,
>>> 
>>>   http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/203058
>> 
>> Bummer.  Ross Bamford does have a feature request in:
>> 
>> http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2890&group_id=126&atid=578
>
> found a workaround
>
>  spec.extensions = 'extconf.rb'
>
>
> now, do whatever you like in extconf.rb

scratch that.  doesn't work quite right.

-a
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