From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T12:36:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Rails on Gumstix

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> For the past couple of weeks, I've been playing around with Ruby on a 
>> Gumstix computer. This is a small machine  -- it fits in the palm of an 
>
> I was using ruby on gumstix for a wireless networking testbed earlier 
> this year. One problem was with ruby loading dynamic libs, so I had to 
> build ruby statically liked with socket and so on. (I think python had 
> the same problem, IIRC.) Have encountered this problem? If so, have 
> you found a way around it?
>
I'll have to look at the makefile -- it may be static by default. 
"socket.c" didn't even cross-compile on my machine; I have IPV6 and the 
cross-development toolchain croaked until I disabled IPV6 in the Ruby 
makefile.

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