From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T21:47:47+09:00
Subject: same compiler needed for C libraries?

I've often heard that the same compiler should be used to compile  
Ruby and C extensions. I've also heard the same restriction for Perl,  
mod_perl, and Apache. Libraries distributed as binaries for Windows  
have to be compiled with Microsoft the compiler as well, right?

Say, for example, you've got a Ruby in Solaris compiled with the Sun  
compiler, and the suite is not installed, nor can you install it.  
Would you try to tweak Makefiles to compile some library with gcc? Or  
is that just a bad idea and it is better to compile Ruby by hand  
bypassing the system Ruby and go on from there?

I am not very familiar with compilers and linkers, which is the  
reason behind these constraints?

-- fxn