[ruby-core:55180] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8455][Open] Linking one Ruby extension to another Ruby extension with mkmf

Issue #8455 has been reported by steved (Steve Dierker).

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Bug #8455: Linking one Ruby extension to another Ruby extension with mkmf
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8455

Author: steved (Steve Dierker)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-linux]
Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN


The problem lies within 'mkmf' of ruby.
If we have a gem which contains a native extension consisting of two libraries called 'libfail' and 'good' in C/C++ and both of these libraries have Ruby extensions it is not possible to compile and link them against each other without patching 'mkmf.rb'.
A sample git-repository is here: https://github.com/FlavourSys/ruby-native-extension-bug

If we call 'rake compile' it terminates with an error, because 'find_library' of 'mkmf' is not able to link against 'libfail'. The problem is that the 'ruby-static' libraries are added as g++ option before 'libfail' is.

A simple monkey patch is provided in the git repository. The solution is to just change the order of arguments for the compiler.



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