All versions of fxruby (ruby-fox interface) force the build to proceed at -O0. Experience has shown me that using the CFLAGS ruby passes in during the setup works fine. (For me, that measn CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -mcpu=ultrasparc' on sparc, but it depends on how ruby was built, of course.) Compiling at -O0 results in huge, slow libraries and (in my opinion) is always wrong. While we're at it, when I build FXruby by hand, I always use 'make -j2' with no problems, and it goes a lot faster for these huge c++ wrappers. I understand that the build is controlled by install.rb, but a parallel make for the c++ portion would be a lot nicer.
Created attachment 54712 [details, diff] Patch to apply in dev-ruby/fxruby to let fxruby use ruby's CFLAGS instead of forcing -O0. If in dev-ruby/fxruby you patch thus: patch -p0 -z- -b < fxruby-1.2.4.patch, then fxruby will not change the CFlAGS passed in by ruby to include -O0. This results in much longer compile times, but smaller and faster fox interface for ruby.
Tested with 1.2.4, but the same sort of thing applies to all versions of fxruby, really.
ferris, please commit this patch if you're still up to it.
(In reply to comment #3) > ferris, please commit this patch if you're still up to it. Done for fxruby-1.2.2, fxruby-1.2.6. Update uses sed instead of a patch file, mirroring the unpack function in 1.2.6. Both versions build without forcing '-O0', install, and run the examples correctly. (Testing -1.2.6 requires some package unmasking, of course.) Notice that the example for textedit does not run with fxruby-1.2.xx, but this appears to be because of a change in the UI for ruby/fox, and is independent of this enhancement.
