From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2002-06-19T09:26:30+09:00
Subject: Re: mkmf and extconf.rb

On Wed 19 Jun 2002 at 07:40:34 +0900, Ian Macdonald wrote:

> I'm using the mkmf module to create a Makefile for a C extension I'm
> writing. Unfortunately, when I create the Makefile using
> 'create_makefile('foo')' in extconf.rb, the following line gets
> written out:
> 
> LIBS = -L. -l$(RUBY_INSTALL_NAME) -lc
> 
> This has the effect that my tiny piece of code is linked against
> libruby, which has the effect of making it unnecessarily huge. How can
> I stop mkmf from adding '-l$(RUBY_INSTALL_NAME)' to LIBS?

I've managed to figure this out. libruby.a was getting linked in by
accident.

Ian
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Ian Macdonald               | "If you understand what you're doing,
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