From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2002-12-20T00:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.6.8-preview4 compile fails in ncurses

Nobu, 

Thank you for replying so quickly, 

In article
<200212191433.gBJEXcc18722@sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp>,
nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> 
>  ... Whitch version is your ld?
>   $ ld -v
>   GNU ld version 2.11.92.0.10 20011021

GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.22)

I fixed things myself by commenting out ext/extmk.rb.in , line 381.

381:    $DLDFLAGS << " -Wl,--no-undefined"

Now ruby builds, tests and installs OK.  Unfortunately your patch
gives me:

gcc -shared  -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -L/usr/local/src/Build/Tools/ruby-1.6.8-preview4 -L/usr/local/lib  -o curses.so curses.o -L. -lruby -ldl -lcrypt -lm  -lncurses -lc
/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option `--allow-shlib-undefined'

Maybe Red Hat 6.3 is too old?  :-(

HTH, 

Jeremy Henty