From: Roman Shterenzon <romanbsd@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T00:30:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21755] Re: [Bug #1090] zlib doesn't load after  installation

Or maybe just warn.
I've bitten by this issue several times already, and I believe that warning the user that these (quite essential) extensions won't be built is a plausible thing.



----- Original Message ----
From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@gmail.com>
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 4:24:09 PM
Subject: [ruby-core:21751] Re: [Bug #1090] zlib doesn't load after  installation

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Luis Lavena <redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Issue #1090 has been updated by Luis Lavena.
>
>
> You need zlib development headers installed.
>
> If not, the zlib extension doesn't build at all.
> ----------------------------------------
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1090

One answer would be for 1.9 to err at configure time if zlib and
opensl are not installed [since it comes with gems preinstalled, you'd
expect gems to work]...
Thoughts?
-=r