On Saturday 11 December 2004 04:34 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote: > > I must have missed something. What exactly is the problem with > > compiling ruby with RUBYOPT? (I searched the RubyGemsDev mailing > > list and couldn't find a reference). > > Once miniruby is built, if RUBYOPT is set, then it can't find > "ubygems" and the build dies. I still must be missing something ... with Ruby 1.8.2.preview2 ... traken$ echo $RUBYOPT rubygems traken$ make gcc -g -O2 -I. -I. -c array.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I. -c bignum.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I. -c class.c [... many line elided ...] ar rcu libruby-static.a array.o bignum.o class.o compar.o dir.o dln.o enum.o error.o eval.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o numeric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o prec.o random.o range.o re.o regex.o ruby.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o string.o struct.o time.o util.o variable.o version.o dmyext.o gcc -g -O2 -I. -I. -c main.c gcc -g -O2 -rdynamic main.o dmyext.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby compiling Win32API compiling bigdecimal [... more lines elided ...] make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jim/pkgs/ruby-1.8.2-preview3' gcc -g -O2 -rdynamic -L. main.o -lruby-static -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o ruby make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jim/pkgs/ruby-1.8.2-preview3' traken$ make test test succeeded traken$ echo $RUBYOPT rubygems AFAICT miniruby builds fine. Am I doing something different than the those having a problem? -- -- Jim Weirich jim / weirichhouse.org http://onestepback.org ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)