From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-07-24T15:26:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug report: ruby-1.8.0p3 fails to compile under FreeBSD-4.7

Hi,

At Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:55:25 +0900,
Brian Candler wrote:
> > There should be libruby-static.a at /usr/local/lib.
> 
> Ah, there it is. But this now seems inconsistent. If you're going to put the
> library in /usr/local/lib, surely ruby.h should be installed in
> /usr/local/include?

Maybe, /usr/local/include/ruby-1.8?  Or, as you mentioned,
multiple versions won't be possible to coexist.

> I actually liked it as it was - since I'm just starting to play with 1.8.0,
> having both versions in separate places makes it easy to link against one
> versus the other. But in future this won't be possible.

--program-prefix, --program-suffix and --program-transform-name
can change the name.

> Also - I don't get a .so. Is that a platform limitation, or a compile-time
> option? Any reason not to build it by default?

libruby.so?  Try configure with --enable-shared.

-- 
Nobu Nakada