[webstack-discuss] Ruby support for C/C++ gems.

2008-04-04 Thread Prashant Srinivasan
Jyri Virkki wrote: > Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: > >> Is not possible to have a user level rbconfig.rb. As in >> $HOME/.rbconfig.rb that would override the system level. In this case, >> the users could then copy either rbconfig.rb.sun_studio or >> rbconfig.rb.gcc as their $HOME/.rbconf

[webstack-discuss] Ruby support for C/C++ gems.

2008-04-04 Thread Prashant Srinivasan
Jyri Virkki wrote: > Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > >> So, in order to make using Ruby as easy as possible to folks with >> different preferences, we're considering packaging two versions of >> rbconfig.rb, one tailor made for gcc, and the other for Sun Studio. >> >> rbconfig.rb will be a syml

[webstack-discuss] Ruby support for C/C++ gems.

2008-04-02 Thread Jyri Virkki
Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram wrote: > > Is not possible to have a user level rbconfig.rb. As in > $HOME/.rbconfig.rb that would override the system level. In this case, > the users could then copy either rbconfig.rb.sun_studio or > rbconfig.rb.gcc as their $HOME/.rbconfig.rb. Did you mean "not po

[webstack-discuss] Ruby support for C/C++ gems.

2008-04-02 Thread Sivakumar Shanmugasundaram
Is not possible to have a user level rbconfig.rb. As in $HOME/.rbconfig.rb that would override the system level. In this case, the users could then copy either rbconfig.rb.sun_studio or rbconfig.rb.gcc as their $HOME/.rbconfig.rb. Siva Jyri Virkki wrote: > Prashant Srinivasan wrote: >> So, i

[webstack-discuss] Ruby support for C/C++ gems.

2008-04-01 Thread Jyri Virkki
Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > > So, in order to make using Ruby as easy as possible to folks with > different preferences, we're considering packaging two versions of > rbconfig.rb, one tailor made for gcc, and the other for Sun Studio. > > rbconfig.rb will be a symlink, and point to the gcc co

[webstack-discuss] Ruby support for C/C++ gems.

2008-03-28 Thread Shanti Subramanyam - PAE
This sounds reasonable to me and is the method we'll go for in Cool Stack. Shanti Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > Here's a few thoughts on how to proceed with SFWNV Ruby support for > native gems - comments are appreciated. > > Ruby maintains data about it's build information(like compiler > l

[webstack-discuss] Ruby support for C/C++ gems.

2008-03-26 Thread Prashant Srinivasan
Here's a few thoughts on how to proceed with SFWNV Ruby support for native gems - comments are appreciated. Ruby maintains data about it's build information(like compiler location, linker paths, flags etc.,) in a file called rbconfig.rb. When the end user installs a gem that includes native