[ruby-talk:03535] Re: Options database (was: Define & Include?)

Hi,

Cameron Laird wrote:

> We're in the
> middle <URL:http://www.regularexpressions.com/#options>
> now of a series on the options database that we intend as
> useful to *all* Tk programmers, whether they happen to be
> using the Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ... binding.  This is a
> good time, by the way, for comments and questions folks would
> like to see addressed before we wrap up the series.

(Cameron: Thanks for the info.)

Despite past problems that led me to give up on this stuff, the preceding note
inspired me to make a quick attempt to see what happens if I try to build Tcl/Tk
8.2 and Ruby 1.4.4 out of the box (actually, rebuilding after doing a make
distclean), on AIX 4.3, using the AIX vac compiler.

This time I didn't try to configure the install directories and such, I just let
Tcl/Tk and Ruby do their default things in /usr/local. After building Tcl/Tk, I
verified that the widget demo ran. When doing the make for Ruby, I encountered
this:

compiling tcltklib
        /usr/ccs/bin/ld  -eInit_tcltklib
-bI:/driver/tools/src/ruby/ruby-1.4.4/ruby.imp -b
M:SRE -T512 -H512 -lc  -L/usr/local/lib -o tcltklib.so tcltklib.o -ltk8.2
-ltcl8.2 -lX11 -
lm -ldl -lc
ld: 0706-006 Cannot find or open library file: -l tk8.2
        ld:open(): A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
ld: 0706-006 Cannot find or open library file: -l tcl8.2
        ld:open(): A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 255.

# ls /usr/local/lib
libtcl8.2.exp     libtk8.2.exp      ruby/             tk8.2/
libtcl8.2.so*     libtk8.2.so*      tcl8.2/           tkConfig.sh
libtclstub8.2.a   libtkstub8.2.a    tclConfig.sh

Hmm, wonder if that new combo of lib*stub*.a and lib*.so stuff is a problem?

(I seem to recall some special -b<flag> for .so stuff. Maybe it's in Ruby 1.5.x?)

--
Conrad Schneiker
(This note is unofficial and subject to improvement without notice.)