From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-09-23T21:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Extconf problem.

nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> At Fri, 20 Sep 2002 23:02:50 +0900,
> Christian Szegedy wrote:
>> all:		example.o
>> ..cxx.o :
>> 	g++ -c $@ $<
> 
> Are there two dots at beginning of the line, and the command
> uses g++ directly?
> 
>> The problem is that it does NOT work with gmake,
>> it says:
>> 
>> No rule to make target `example.o', needed by `all'.  Stop.
>> 
>> Remark: if you substitute "cxx" by "C", then it works.
> 
> C rule should be generated below the .cxx rule.
> 
> Could you show me your extconf.rb?

This is the same problem I reported in this post (a few weeks back):

	http://www.ruby-talk.org/blade/48866

I'd like to see this bug in mkmf.rb fixed as well.

Hope this helps,

Lyle