From: Mike Dalessio <mike.dalessio@...>
Date: 2010-05-01T07:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: installing a ruby gem with a native extension

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:45 PM, aj <mailtome200420032002@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Apr 29, 9:43 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 29, 7:56 pm, aj <mailtome200420032...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I am new to ruby. I want to install a ruby gem which tries to build a
> > > native extension. The gem in this case is nokogiri. If I do gem
> > > install nokogiri, the native extension dynamically links against
> > > libxml, libxslt libs. I want to statically link against those libs.
> > > How should I go about this?
> >
> I am running it on a RHEL 3 machine.
>
>

Perhaps you're trying to solve the wrong problem?

If you install alternative (to the system-installed) libxml2 and libxslt
shared libraries, it's very easy to tell Nokogiri to use those libraries to
dynamically link -- see
http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html for details (and a
RHEL example).

IMHO that's easier than trying to hack the extconf.rb to link statically.

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