From: Neil Spring <nspring@...>
Date: 2003-11-30T08:41:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on OSX 10.3 (Panther)


On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:31:50AM +0900, Richard Kilmer wrote:

> I tried working with Apple to do this (with special thanks
> to James Duncan Davidson) but it was just too late.  They
> had already committed to golden master before 1.8 was
> finalized :-(

Richard, 

If you have a contact at apple managing Ruby, would you forward
a concern of mine along, or direct me (off list if appropriate)
to the proper way to report a problem with the ruby install on 
OS X 10.3.1?

In rbconfig.rb, there are two oddities.  First, CFLAGS includes 
"-arch i386 -arch ppc", twice.  I think this is very odd.

Second, and more importantly because it initially broke my
attempts to use rbconfig.rb to autoconfigure a modified ruby
interpreter,

  CONFIG["LIBRUBY_A"] = "lib$(RUBY_INSTALL_NAME).a"
  CONFIG["LIBRUBY_SO"] = "lib$(RUBY_INSTALL_NAME).so.$(MAJOR).$(MINOR).$(TEENY)"
  CONFIG["LIBRUBY_ALIASES"] = "lib$(RUBY_INSTALL_NAME).so"
  CONFIG["LIBRUBY"] = "$(LIBRUBY_A)"
  CONFIG["LIBRUBYARG"] = "$(LIBRUBY_A)"

however, ".so" is not a shared library extension on these
machines (dylib is the proper extension) and libruby.a is
not installed (apparently apple dislikes static linking).
It would be great if I could test for the existence of
LIBRUBY_SO in libdir, or just compile with LIBRUBYARG.  It's
hard for me to figure out how to use these rbconfig entries
to automatically discover how to build and install add-ons,
and I don't remember having this difficulty with fink's ruby
on jaguar.

thanks,
-neil