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# Unconventional way of extconf-ing
# http://yorickpeterse.com/articles/hacking-extconf-rb/
require 'mkmf'

# Stops the installation process if one of these commands is not found in
# $PATH.
find_executable('make')
find_executable('qmake')

# Create a dummy extension file. Without this RubyGems would abort the
# installation process. On Linux this would result in the file "wat.so"
# being created in the current working directory.
#
# Normally the generated Makefile would take care of this but since we
# don't generate one we'll have to do this manually.
#
# fake_extension = File.join(Dir.pwd, 'kdiff3.' + RbConfig::CONFIG['DLEXT'])
# File.open(fake_extension, "w") {}

Dir.chdir('./') do
  exec './configure qt4'
end

# fail if compiling didn't succeed
unless File.exist?('releaseQT/kdiff3')
  abort('kdiff3 was not successfully compiled')
end

# This is normally set by calling create_makefile() but we don't need that
# method since we'll provide a dummy Makefile. Without setting this value
# RubyGems will abort the installation.
$makefile_created = true

Version data entries

1 entries across 1 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
kdiff3-0.9.3	ext/kdiff3/extconf.rb