From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2001-01-02T23:17:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8516] Re: 1.6.2 on Solaris2.5.1

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "H" == Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> H> Request for Enhancement:   that the presence of appropriate database
> H> .h files be tested for explicitly at compile time.
> 
>  Actually it test it, see ext/gdbm/extconf.rb
> 
> pigeon% cat extconf.rb 
	[...]
> pigeon% 
	[...]
>  Can you verify what it do when you run it directly ?

brains hgs 40 %> pwd
/home/hgs/ruby/ruby-1.6.2/ext/gdbm
brains hgs 41 %> ./extconf.rb
./extconf.rb: Permission denied
brains hgs 42 %> ruby -w !$
ruby -w ./extconf.rb
checking for gdbm_open() in -lgdbm... no
brains hgs 43 %> 

But this is not being used at all....  in the top Makefile the definitions
for EXTLIBS and EXTOBJS are blank, but I suppose that happens if you
don't ask for 'special' treatment of dynamic loading -- i.e. if you
just use the defaults.  Or is that irrelevant?

> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
	Hugh