From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-05-13T08:59:13+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 1.8 treats warnings as errors for C extensions, fails to install RedCloth?


On May 12, 2011, at 14:21 , Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 23:00, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
> 
>> On May 12, 2011, at 03:35 , Quintus wrote:
> 
>>> Obviously RedCloth generates some warnings during compilation, and now
>>> RubyGems advises the compiler to treat them as errors--as far as I know
>>> this wasn't the case with previous versions of RubyGems, because some
>>> days ago RedCloth installed without problems (no, no new release of
>>> RedCloth happened in the meantime). This causes the installation of
>>> RedCloth to fail.
> 
>> Can we stop with the knee-jerk reaction to blame rubygems for everything including the national deficit?
>> 
>> Rubygems calls make/rake/whatever. That's it.
> 
> Was this really necessary?  Make the output clearer instead of
> complaining that people don’t understand it.

I can't make the output clearer as I didn't make the output to begin with. Again, rubygems just calls make/rake/whatever. That's it.