From: Nolan Darilek <nolan_d@...>
Date: 2000-12-22T03:45:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7901] rb2c: packaging solution?

I've continued to investigate ways for packaging ruby executables. I
first looked into python's freeze to see what it did; it appears to
create an executable containing the Python code converted to C. So I
decided to investigate rb2c. I downloaded 0.6.1, but I can't get it to
work. Here's what I do:

ethereal:~/src/rb2c-0.6.1> ruby config.rb
ethereal:~/src/rb2c-0.6.1> make all
(cd ext; /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb; make)
creating Makefile
/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/mkmf.rb:120:in `|': failed to convert String into Array (TypeError)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/mkmf.rb:120:in `install_rb'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/mkmf.rb:116:in `find'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/find.rb:13:in `catch'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/find.rb:13:in `find'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/mkmf.rb:116:in `install_rb'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.6/mkmf.rb:394:in `create_makefile'
	from extconf.rb:4
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/nolan/src/rb2c-0.6.1/ext'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `rb2cparse.so', needed by `all'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nolan/src/rb2c-0.6.1/ext'
make: *** [all-ext] Error 2
Exit 2

I don't know enough about ruby, or mkmf, to know what's going
on. Building ruby itself works, and many of the extensions seem to use
mkmf. Is there a more up-to-date version of rb2c floating around? Or,
how difficult would it be to patch this old version, which appears to
work with ruby 1.4.5?

Thanks.