From: Johann Hibschman <johann@...>
Date: 2001-04-09T07:10:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13566] compilation question, xfree, etc.

Hi folks,

I just tried to get Ruby 1.6.3 to compile on Mac OS X.  It worked
fine, but I ran into a conflict with readline.  Both readline and gc.c
define values for xfree, xmalloc, etc., although the ones in gc.c seem
pointless.  (They're simple wrappers to ruby_xfree, etc.)

However, having both defined symbols around leads to errors when
trying to link in readline.  (Multiple definitions.)

I simply deleted the corresponding functions in gc.c.  Was this a bad
thing?  Will I suffer for it later?  What is the point of having those
functions there, if nothing in the entire Ruby code base ever calls
them?

Thanks,

--Johann

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Johann Hibschman                           johann@physics.berkeley.edu