I put my changes onto the recent master. A few things:
1) The extconf-make.rb file is what effectively fixes the bug on BSD; occasionally, after running a make script, the shell (accessible to the script) is not updated with the new directory structure. Running a separate ruby script with a new shell command refreshes the directory structure and will let the make install proceed.
2) There is a branch I have called "local_fixes": I had to modify the Includes & Libraries variables to include "/usr/local/lib". Some distributions of BSD (particularly in managed hosting) don't come with package managers, and there seems to be some issues with automatic linking or trying to detect installed /compiled libraries if that is the case. I'm not 100% sure this should go into master - there should be a cleaner way of doing this than simply spamming the path - but I thought I would mention it, and point out where it was, because that was my final step to getting the gem working on FreeBSD 6.2.
evan
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13 years ago
I put my changes onto the recent master. A few things:
1) The extconf-make.rb file is what effectively fixes the bug on BSD; occasionally, after running a make script, the shell (accessible to the script) is not updated with the new directory structure. Running a separate ruby script with a new shell command refreshes the directory structure and will let the make install proceed.
2) There is a branch I have called "local_fixes": I had to modify the Includes & Libraries variables to include "/usr/local/lib". Some distributions of BSD (particularly in managed hosting) don't come with package managers, and there seems to be some issues with automatic linking or trying to detect installed /compiled libraries if that is the case. I'm not 100% sure this should go into master - there should be a cleaner way of doing this than simply spamming the path - but I thought I would mention it, and point out where it was, because that was my final step to getting the gem working on FreeBSD 6.2.
Hope this helps.