Bug 150384

Summary:	gems.eclass does not honor mkmf's $LDFLAGS
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy (RETIRED) <pclouds>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Ruby Team <ruby>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-07 07:41:12 UTC

it calls make DLDFLAGS=$LDFLAGS which overrides $LDFLAGS completely. If $LDFLAGS contains some linking libraries, then the ebuild will emerge fine but not working.
Some ebuilds have work-around by not calling gems_src_install.

Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-07 07:47:43 UTC

The problem is that without that change, it tries to use the LDFLAGS used to build Ruby to build the rest (and they might not be adapt for that).

Comment 2 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-07 08:05:28 UTC

Perhaps we should patch mkmf :P I'll try to convice gem makers to use $libs instead of $LDFLAGS. Although I still want gems.eclass to append/override ldflags.

Comment 3 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2010-01-11 15:25:38 UTC

gems.eclass is no longer used for new packages. Closing WONTFIX.