From: Luis Lavena Date: 2009-08-13T03:31:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:24889] Re: [Feature #1857] install *.h and *.inc On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Mark Moseley wrote: > Issue #1857 has been updated by Mark Moseley. > > > This is becoming more and more of a problem; people are trying to install the 1.9 ruby-debug and getting the vm_core.h not found error. So I'm going to tackle creating a gem to do this. > > Here's my idea: at the time extconf.rb runs for linecache or ruby-debug-base, pull the Ruby sources from ftp.ruby-lang.org based on the current RUBY_VERSION and RUBY_PATCHLEVEL. Decompress, pull out *.h and *.inc, put it into a directory, and then proceed with the build. All of this in pure Ruby so I don't have to worry about wget or tar on Windows. > Similar approach of what we did for RubyInstaller project, using uri_ext and pure-ruby unzip. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry