From: "mpapis (Michal Papis)" Date: 2013-02-09T22:43:15+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:52072] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7467] lib/mkmf.rb merge_lib fails on larger sets of libraries Issue #7467 has been updated by mpapis (Michal Papis). just curious what the new code does more over the simple `libs.flatten.uniq`? ---------------------------------------- Bug #7467: lib/mkmf.rb merge_lib fails on larger sets of libraries https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7467#change-36090 Author: mpapis (Michal Papis) Status: Closed Priority: Normal Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) Category: lib Target version: 2.0.0 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p286 (2012-10-12 revision 37165) [x86_64-darwin12.2.0] running: merge_libs(["-lncurses", "-ltinfo", "-lssl", "-lcrypto", "-lz", "-lreadline", "-ltermcap", "-lyaml"],["-lcrypto", "-lssl", "-lcrypto", "-lz"],[]) fails with an exception I have tried a bit and it works fine with a lot simplified version of this code: def merge_libs(*libs) libs.flatten.uniq end Also can this be backported to Ruby 1.9.3? -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/