From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-11-10T13:59:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby and LDFLAGS

Hi,

At Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:12:33 +0900,
Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote in [ruby-talk:118550]:
> > > Does anybody know why ruby does not support LDFLAGS?
> > > I am again installing in an environment where libraries are mostly in a
> > > non-standard location - BSD.
> > > I found I can pass arguments to configure, one for each extension that
> > > requires a library from /usr/pkg/lib. But that means I have to name all
> > > the extensions and if one is later added I have to find the argument
> > > name for it.
> > 
> > Use DLDFLAGS for extensions instead of LDFLAGS.  The latter is
> > for executable files, and some platforms require different
> > flags to link shared objects.
> 
> And what flags do I use to propagate my favourite library paths into
> mkmf link tests?

What you want is --with-opt-dir / --with-opt-include /
--with-opt-lib ?

-- 
Nobu Nakada