From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-05-30T10:51:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby be compiled against uclibc?

Dani Varga wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to target an ARM based system that will have limited
> resources. The primary reason why I want to use uclibc instead of gcc is
> because of the size reduction.
> Does anybody have any kind of idea how could I accomplish this task?
> Just for practice and to see what possible problems could arise I tried
> to compile Ruby against i386-uclibc-linux.
> The output became quite tragic.
> http://www.hungarydan.com/output_e.txt
>
> Thx Dan
>
>   
Yes ... the "buildroot" toolset used by Gumstix and others has Ruby in 
it. I think there are other ways to do it. There may be some code of 
mine for the Gumstix on Rubyforge in the "roast" project. I haven't 
touched it in months, but I think what was there worked and built Ruby.