Comments on: Updating MySQL Gem to 2.7 http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/ A whole bunch of nought thought by Chris Cummer Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:52:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: chris http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1553 chris Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:08:02 +0000 http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1553 A sound explanation. Thanks Thomas! A sound explanation. Thanks Thomas!

]]> By: Thomas Watson http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1552 Thomas Watson Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:57:22 +0000 http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1552 The double hyphens (--) tells the option parser that there is no more options on the command line. This special syntax comes from GNU getopt. Everything after '--' is treated as non-options. This is useful if you want to write something on the command line that looks like an option but is not, or if it should be parsed though as an option to another program called by the one you are calling. The two hyphens in this particular command string is important since the gem binary must not confuse the '--with-mysql-dir' option as an option for gem it self. Instead this option should be passed on to the make command called in the gem internals. The double hyphens (–) tells the option parser that there is no more options on the command line. This special syntax comes from GNU getopt. Everything after ‘–’ is treated as non-options. This is useful if you want to write something on the command line that looks like an option but is not, or if it should be parsed though as an option to another program called by the one you are calling.

The two hyphens in this particular command string is important since the gem binary must not confuse the ‘–with-mysql-dir’ option as an option for gem it self. Instead this option should be passed on to the make command called in the gem internals.

]]> By: chris http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1383 chris Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:35:48 +0000 http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1383 Quite frankly I don't know why the extra dashes are required in there. I just stumbled upon it by accident. Bloody Unix developers... ;) Quite frankly I don’t know why the extra dashes are required in there. I just stumbled upon it by accident. Bloody Unix developers… ;)

]]> By: Brandon http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1378 Brandon Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:43:26 +0000 http://www.postal-code.com/binarycode/2007/04/19/updating-mysql-gem-to-27/#comment-1378 It would be nice if <code>gem</code> would have the courtesy to tell us that it needed a location. P.S. Aren't cha gonna tell us what's with the extra --? It would be nice if gem would have the courtesy to tell us that it needed a location.

P.S. Aren’t cha gonna tell us what’s with the extra –?

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