From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2006-10-25T11:01:56+09:00
Subject: Re: zlib.so Problem on MIPS target platform.

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> so...zlib.so extension IS required by ruby? I thought I had read =20
> somewhere that the zlib.so extension was deprecated after 1.6.=20
> (something). And I could simply use the libz.so from the system.
>=20
> Currently, I simply have ln -s /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.1  /usr/local/lib/=20
> ruby/1.8/mipsel-linux/zlib.so .... so, just a link to the systems =20
> libz. Is that the problem? And if so...does it matter whether i use =20
> the included ruby/ext/zlib or the ruby-zlib-0.6.0 package? Are they =20
> the same thing? (Besides the fact that I can't seem to get either to =20
> cross compile correctly without some major tweaking).

It is -- you don't need an externally supplied zlib.so, hence the
obsolescence of that package, but it is included in ruby 1.8:

aredridel@arcturus:~$ ls /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/zlib.so=20
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/zlib.so

Aria

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