From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-08-05T22:51:36+09:00
Subject: Re: help from *nix ruby users

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:25:54 +0900,
> Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote in [ruby-talk:108359]:
>> Is there any difference between
>>
>> ruby -r rbconfig -e 'p Config::CONFIG["arch"]'
>>
>> and
>>
>> ruby -e 'p PLATFORM'
>
> Almostly equal.  But they can be different while cross
> compiling.
>
> Although many extension libraries (even ext/extmk.rb and
> lib/mkmf.rb) uses RUBY_PLATFORM in their extconf.rb to determin
> the target platform, I consider it shouldn't.
>
> Moreover, PLATFORM, VERSION and RELEASE_DATE have been
> deprecated long ago, so never use them.
>
> --
> Nobu Nakada

so you reccomend using CONFIG['arch']?  how about for #ifdefs in extenstions?


-a
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