* Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> [160505 21:53]:
> Control: reassign -1 libruby2.3
> 
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > Control: reassign -1 gem2deb
> > 
> > Reassigning to gem2deb, which is what provides the ruby buildsystem.
> > Anybody building with mkmf/extconf without ruby buildsystem is on
> > their own.
> > 
> > As a datapoint, mkmf understands --with-cflags="--something" and
> > similar for --with-ldflags.
> 
> actually, as extensions are compiled using the same flags as were used
> to compile Ruby itself, it makes sense to "fix" this in src:ruby2.3 (as
> we also want the binaries built by it to be built with bindnow).

Right, but the "fix" in ruby2.3 will be to build libruby with
bindnow (which appears to be harder than expected).

> Making gem2deb correctly use dpkg-buildflags and pass the flags there
> down to the Ruby extension build is also useful, and is tracked in
> #722154

That's what would help ruby-rrd right now, too.

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