From: Wim Vander Schelden <wim.vanderschelden@...>
Date: 2007-01-22T19:12:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby extension tutorial

Eric Hodel schreef:
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 01:46, Wim Vander Schelden wrote:
>> Eric Hodel schreef:
>>> I'd change this to:
>>>
>>> abort 'need stdio.h' unless have_header("stdio.h")
>>>
>> Yes, I first did that as well, I thought have_header and the like 
>> aborted all by themselves. I changed it to abort 'need stdio.h' now, 
>> looks cleaner when it fails.
>
> It allows you to look for headers that may have different names for 
> different versions like:
>
> have_header "foo1.h" or
>   have_header "foo2.h" or
>   abort "can't find headers for foo"
>
> --Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
>
> I LIT YOUR GEM ON FIRE!
>
>
>
I might add this to the discussion of the extconf.rb file later, I think 
it deserves a little extra attention.

- Wim