From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2003-07-16T04:39:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Cross-compiling ruby

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:30:03 +0900
Ben Giddings <ben@thingmagic.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Has anybody here ever cross-compiled ruby successfully?  I ask because I'm 
> trying to do just that and "configure" busts in a number of places when 
> cross-compiling.  An example:

I tried cross-compiling it for the Zaurus... there are issues.

> checking whether getpgrp takes no argument... configure: error: cannot check 
> getpgrp if cross compiling
> 
> at which point "configure" exits.

This is one of them.  Comment out AC_FUNC_GETPGRP in configure.in,
regenerate configure, and try again

> I looked at its source and see:
> 
<snip>

The "configure" script is generated by autoconf from configure.in.

<snip>
> Oh, and jumping ahead a little bit, has anybody ever cross-compiled eRuby?  If 
> I can get Ruby ported I think I'm going to try to use it to replace a really 
> awful CGI written in 18 C files with html mixed in haphasardly with C code.  
> Ugh.
<snip>

Nice.

The other problem with cross compiling is the handling of shared
libraries.  I can get a static compile fine, but no shared libs or
dynamic loading.  Someone had a suggestion about explicitly specifying
support, but I haven't had a chance to try it out.

-- 
Ryan Pavlik <rpav@users.sf.net>

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