From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-11-24T21:44:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6573] Re: Ruby/C extension build question

arjen@aragorn.demon.nl writes:

> Question: is it possible (from with in extconf.rb) to add the libgd.a/
> libgdchart.a targets to the resulting Makefile so it will build those
> libraries first?

You _could_ determine if they exist (using have_library), and if not
use system to go into the subdirectory and invoke make there. When
system finishes, you can check the return code, and then invoke
have_library again.


Regards (and thanks for the kind words)


Dave