Ryan Pavlik
7/15/2003 7:39:00 PM
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:30:03 +0900
Ben Giddings <ben@thingmagic.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Has anybody here ever cross-compiled ruby successfully? I ask because I'm
> trying to do just that and "configure" busts in a number of places when
> cross-compiling. An example:
I tried cross-compiling it for the Zaurus... there are issues.
> checking whether getpgrp takes no argument... configure: error: cannot check
> getpgrp if cross compiling
>
> at which point "configure" exits.
This is one of them. Comment out AC_FUNC_GETPGRP in configure.in,
regenerate configure, and try again
> I looked at its source and see:
>
<snip>
The "configure" script is generated by autoconf from configure.in.
<snip>
> Oh, and jumping ahead a little bit, has anybody ever cross-compiled eRuby? If
> I can get Ruby ported I think I'm going to try to use it to replace a really
> awful CGI written in 18 C files with html mixed in haphasardly with C code.
> Ugh.
<snip>
Nice.
The other problem with cross compiling is the handling of shared
libraries. I can get a static compile fine, but no shared libs or
dynamic loading. Someone had a suggestion about explicitly specifying
support, but I haven't had a chance to try it out.
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Ryan Pavlik <rpav@users.sf.net>
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