From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T12:45:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:21134] Re: [PATCH] Change configure to use Cygwin net release naming convention (PR#1077)

わたなべです。

vinschen@redhat.com <vinschen@redhat.com> writes:

> The DLL should be called cygruby18.dll, the link library should be
> called libruby.dll.a, the static lib libruby-static.a.  This is now
> most similar to Linux, external Makefiles don't have to be changed
> when porting to Cygwin (which is an important goal for us).
> 
> To use the correct naming convention, I had to apply the following
> patch to configure.in.  The patch doesn't touch the naming for the
> MingW part but it moves the relevant part a bit.  Also the below
> patch only contains the configure.in, not the regenerated configure
> file.
> 
> It would be nice if this or a similar patch could be considered for
> inclusion into the official ruby distribution.  It will be part of
> the first 1.8.0 package which I'll upload within a few days.

cygwin-ruby18.dllという名前はCygwinの決まりに合わないので、
cygruby18.dllという名前で出すよと言ってるわけですが、
こちらもcygwin-ruby18.dllに依存した拡張ライブラリがあるので、
そう簡単に変えることもできません。

1.8.0リリース前ならまだなんとかなったかと思いますが、もし今
変えたとしてもCVSに追従しなければ、cygwin-ruby18.dllに依存
した拡張ライブラリが作られます。やはり1.8.1リリース時に混乱
が生じます。

あまりにも時期が悪すぎる。

-- 
わたなべひろふみ