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install from ruby checkout on local machine #347
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as far as I can tell, there isn't a way to provide ruby-install with a directory path to a ruby checkout on my machine. It'd be nice to have it be able to install a ruby from a working directory so that I can test out patches in a more long term. Is this a use case that could be supported?
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havenwood commentedon Jul 2, 2019
It's not directly supported, but you can pair
--src-dirwith--no-extractto effectively install a Ruby from a working directory if the directory is named as expected. For example, you can install current trunk with:git clone git@github.com:ruby/ruby.git ruby-2.7.0dev --depth 1 ruby-install --no-extract --src-dir . ruby-2.7.0devThere currently isn't a flag that sets the
$src_dir/$ruby_dir_namedirectly for an arbitrarily-named$ruby_dir_name.havenwood commentedon Jul 3, 2019
A possibility would be to add a
--ruby-src-diroption. Maybe something like: