From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-07-03T02:16:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby9i now available



Jim Cain wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
>> Quick followup - it built fine with 1.6.8 but wasn't as happy with 1.8 
>> (2003-06-14).  Here's the result of the make command:
>>
>>  >make
>>
>>  >make
>> gcc -fPIC -I/opt/oracle/rdbms/demo  -I/opt/oracle/rdbms/public -I. 
>> -I/opt/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9 
>> -I/opt/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9 -I. -DHAVE_OCI_H  -c baseinterval.c
>> baseinterval.c: In function `biv_initialize':
>> baseinterval.c:31: warning: passing arg 2 of `rb_str2cstr' from 
>> incompatible pointer type
>> [more of the same warnings...]
>> Despite the warnings, a small test script worked ok.  Just thought I'd 
>> point it out in case it leads to bigger problems down the road.
> 
> 
> This is because in 1.8 rb_str2cstr(VALUE, int*) has changed to 
> rb_str2cstr(VALUE, long*), and I've used ints for all my lengths.
> 

Ah, ok.  Ruby has some #define's (in version.h) you could use to see 
which version you're building against (if you're feeling up to it).

Regards,

Dan