Hello all, Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but I thought if anyone would know the answer to this, you guys would...
We have a situation where we need to deploy gems that include native code onto a machine that does not have gcc or make installed. The specific situation is that we are creating a VMWare appliance ( http://trac.marketcetera.org/trac.fcgi/wiki/Marketcetera/Appliance ) and we are trying to avoid adding the many many megabytes of native development tools. In the past we have been able to install the gems on the appliance by taking advantage of the fact that "gem" would proceed with installation of the gems (in this case mongrel and fastthread) despite a failure in the native compilation. Then we just copied the native libraries to the appropriate place from a development machine. However it seems that the latest gem release has fixed this, and native gem installations now fail if gcc or make is not present. So I guess my question would be: what is the best way to install a gem onto a machine without having to do the native compilation step? Thanks in advance for any help. graham -- Marketcetera Trading Platform download.run.trade. www.marketcetera.org
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