From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@...>
Date: 2005-05-12T23:01:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [THIN] - Need to reduce Ruby Sources to the Minimal

Ilias Lazaridis, May 12:

> Pit Capitain wrote:

> > When building Ruby, one of the first things created is a "miniruby"
> > executable, which is used for the rest of the building process. Look
> > into the Makefile of the Ruby source distribution.

> very complicated those makefiles.

> How can I make a makefile more 'human-readable', possibly with a
> special editor? (on windows).

Actually, this is a rather simple Makefile and it���s simple to
understand, if one���s familiar with how Makefiles - especially ones using
autoconf - are written.  If you aren���t familiar with how Makefiles are
written or how autoconf works, I suggest you read the respective
manuals, which can be found on the GNU manuals web page��, before
you continue.

Anyway, to answer your question, and to dismiss Pit���s suggestion as a
non-answer to your question (no offence meant), the miniruby executable
depends on all the .c files in the Ruby distribution.  I don���t have a
suggestion on where to start, but I���m guessing that object.c, parse.c,
ruby.c, and st.c would be good places to do so,
        nikolai

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