Re: [ruby-fltk-devel] How to choose alternate C++ compiler?

[Albert C. <rub...@ml...>]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:12:40AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:49:15PM +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 06:22:26AM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
> > 
> > > That's why we need a way to explicitly set the C++ compiler
> > 
> > If the attached extconf.rb doesn't work, can you send me your system's
> > versions of rbconfig.rb and mkmf.rb , plus the Makefile and mkmf.rb
> > created by "ruby extconf.rb"?  Also, can you confirm that running
> > "fltk-config --cxx" on the command line prints the name of the correct
> > C++ compiler?  If it does then extconf.rb will be able to determine
> > the right compiler automatically and I won't need to add a build flag.
> 
> Sorry for dropping this. I just tried 0.9.5 and the problem still
> exists. I've attached copies of rbconfig.rb and mkmf.rb. Because "ruby
> extconf.rb" fails (the conftest.cxx files are compiled with the C
> compiler so all tests fail), no Makefile/mkmf.rb are created.
> 
> $ fltk-config --cxx
> CC
> 
> I'm going to poke around in Ruby's mkmf.rb and try to figure this out.

I have things working but I had to make changes to rbconfig.rb and
mkmf.rb so I'll need to work these out with the Ruby folks.

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albert chin (ch...@th...)