[MacRuby-devel] -twolevel_namespace issue?

[Jeremy Hinegardner]

Thanks, and lets hope Laurent can tell us what to do here :-).

enjoy,

-jeremy

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:39:37PM -0700, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
> That's a good question, and honestly I have no idea :(
> Laurent is on vacation so he's not checking the mailing list, but he should
> be back soon and hopefully he will have an answer.
> 
> - Matt
> 
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy at hinegardner.org
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I develop the Amalgalite gem[1] and it ships with its own copy of SQLite.
> > It does this as it adds in additional compile-time features, and I try and
> > keep it as current as posssible.
> >
> > The problem is that since MacRuby is linked to CoreServices etc, the sqlite
> > library that ships with OSX gets linked at runtime before the sqlite
> > library
> > that is built into the amalgalite gem extension.  I've encountered this
> > before[2] with amalgalite, when it was loaded with my 'hitimes' gem (which
> > on osx links
> > against -framework CoreServes).
> >
> > I am wondering what the appropriate approach is here. I was able to fix
> > this in
> > MRI by compiling MRI with -twolevel_namespace and I think there is an open
> > ticket
> > with ruby-core to see if MRI on osx should be compiled with that flag.
> >
> > I attempted to compile MacRuby with -twolevel_namespace to resolve this,
> > and I
> > was unsuccessful. There appeared to be other flags that conflicted with it.
> >
> > I would expect something like this may also affect the nokogiri gem as
> > limxml2
> > is also a system library on osx, and may conflict with the version that
> > nokogiri
> > expects.
> >
> > Thoughts? Opinions? I'm sure this is a rare case, Amalgalite may be the
> > only
> > project that could experience an issue like this. What is the best way to
> > handle
> > this in the MacRuby ecosystem?
> >
> > enjoy,
> >
> > -jeremy
> >
> > [1] - https://github.com/copiousfreetime/amalgalite
> > [2] -
> > https://github.com/copiousfreetime/amalgalite/blob/master/lib/amalgalite/sqlite3/version.rb#L42-L56-54
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> >  Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy at hinegardner.org
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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy at hinegardner.org