From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T10:51:45+09:00
Subject: Re: mkmf.rb

On Wednesday 03 April 2002 07:01 pm, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:02:20 +0900,
>
> Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> > >> 	I tracked down the problem with the Tk on my Debian box. It
> > >> was never getting built when I built Ruby 1.6.7 from source because
> > >> the have_header("tcl.h") test failed. However, I __DO__ have this
> > >> header file. It is in /usr/include/tcl8.3. How do I pass this into
> > >> either the configure script or the ext/extmk.rb script to get it to
> > >> recognize the location of the header files? Any ideas? TIA!
> > >
> > > Try --with-tcl-include=/usr/include/tcl8.3 for configure.
> >
> > Thanks! That worked like a charm! BTW, that option is not listed in the
> > configure script options. Any reason for that?
>
> `configure' knows nothing about those options but just stores
> them as given, and only extmk.rb and extconf.rb's know about
> them.
>
> Followings are all of *_config options used in 1.7 standard
> extension libraries.  They should be documented somewhere.
>

Just curious;  How is the typical newbie, which I suppose still includes me, 
supposed to translate the following  *_config options  into the need for:

 --with-tcl-include=/usr/include/tcl8.3 for configure.

> $ ruby -C ~/src/ruby/1.7 -e 'Dir["ext/**/extconf.rb"].sort.each {|n|
>   (l=open(n){|f|f.grep(/\B_config\b/)})[0] and print
> n,([":\n"]+l).join("\t") }'
> ext/curses/extconf.rb:
> 	dir_config('curses')
> 	dir_config('ncurses')
> 	dir_config('termcap')
> ext/dbm/extconf.rb:
> 	dir_config("dbm")
> 	dblib = with_config("dbm-type", nil)
> ext/dl/extconf.rb:
> 	$with_type_char  = enable_config("type-char", $with_type_char)
> 	$with_type_short = enable_config("type-short", $with_type_short)
> 	$with_type_float = enable_config("type-float", $with_type_float)
> 	$with_asm        = enable_config("asm", $with_asm)
> 	args = with_config("args")
> ext/gdbm/extconf.rb:
> 	dir_config("gdbm")
> ext/iconv/extconf.rb:
> 	dir_config("iconv")
> ext/readline/extconf.rb:
> 	dir_config("readline")
> ext/socket/extconf.rb:
> 	if enable_config("ipv6", false)
> 	    $ipv6lib=with_config("ipv6-lib", nil)
> 	    $ipv6libdir=with_config("ipv6-libdir", nil)
> 	if not enable_config("wide-getaddrinfo", false) and try_run(<<EOF)
> 	case with_config("lookup-order-hack", "UNSPEC")
> 	  if ENV["SOCKS_SERVER"] or enable_config("socks", false)
> ext/tcltklib/extconf.rb:
> 	dir_config("tk")
> 	dir_config("tcl")
> 	dir_config("X11")
> 	tklib = with_config("tklib")
> 	tcllib = with_config("tcllib")
> 	stubs = enable_config("tcltk_stubs") || with_config("tcltk_stubs")

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