[FreeBSD] Set RB_USER_INSTALL environment variable

[geoffgarside]

In the FreeBSD versions of Ruby the system rbconfig.rb has the following lines

CONFIG["INSTALL_DATA"] = ENV['RB_USER_INSTALL'] ? 'install  -m 444' : 'install  -o root -g wheel -m 444'
CONFIG["INSTALL_SCRIPT"] = ENV['RB_USER_INSTALL'] ? 'install  -m 555' : 'install  -o root -g wheel -m 555'
CONFIG["INSTALL_PROGRAM"] = ENV['RB_USER_INSTALL'] ? 'install  -s -m 555' : 'install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555'

which causes gems with extensions to attempt to chown built files to root:wheel when running gem bundle. It would be better if Bundler could set the RB_USER_INSTALL environment variable to 1 so that built files are not chown'd to root:wheel but are instead left alone w.r.t ownership.

For the time being the following command will enable gem bundles to be installed on FreeBSD

$ env RB_USER_INSTALL="1" gem bundle

I've checked neither Windows, Linux or Mac OS X versions of Ruby use RB_USER_INSTALL. I don't know if NetBSD or OpenBSD are affected.

[geoffgarside]

I've been looking through the bundler source. I think the environment would need to be set in either the Gemfile though I'm not sure about that, or lib/bundler/bundle.rb. If its the latter then I'm guessing it would be in one of

• install

• do_install

• expand_gemfile

though I'm not sure which, if any are correct.

[xxx]

handling it in the Gemfile works fine for me.

[geoffgarside]

How do you handle it in the Gemfile? Add ENV['RB_USER_INSTALL'] = 1 or something?

[xxx]

Yes, exactly. I just put it in as the first line in the Gemfile and all is well.

[xxx]

oh, make sure it's ENV['RB_USER_INSTALL'] = '1' (i.e. '1' is a string)

[geoffgarside]

brilliant