[ruby-core:51449] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7698] RubyGems 2.0 has an incompatibility about installation of extension libraries

Issue #7698 has been updated by drbrain (Eric Hodel).


I am unfamiliar with Makefiles, so what does this patch change?

Also, .time is new in ruby 2.0, what effect does this have on ruby 1.9 and ruby 1.8?

I trust your judgement in adding this to RubyGems.  If you commit it to Ruby please commit it to RubyGems and let me know!
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Bug #7698: RubyGems 2.0 has an incompatibility about installation of extension libraries
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7698#change-35435

Author: mrkn (Kenta Murata)
Status: Open
Priority: High
Assignee: kou (Kouhei Sutou)
Category: lib
Target version: 2.0.0
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0dev (2013-01-14 trunk 38812) [x86_64-linux]


The current rubygem included in ruby-head has an incompatibility about installation of extension libraries.
This incompatibility makes `make install` to be failed because the current gem doesn't separate build, source and install directories.

This is reported as a bug of bigdecimal's gemspec in #7344 firstly, but Tadashi Saito pointed out it also can be reproduced in other gems including extension libraries, such as decimal.gem.
I think this incompatibility will make gem-developers to be in trouble after ruby-2.0 is released.
So this should be resolved before ruby-2.0 is released.



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