On May 11, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:
I have a few C extensions where I would like to be able to provide a
way to specify a generic platform.
For example, the sys-cpu source is the same for both FreeBSD and OS X.
However, as things stand now I must create two separate gems - one for
each platform. Here's where a Gem::Platform::BSD constant would be
very handy. Or whatever you want to call it.
The same binary works on FreeBSD and OS X? Or is it a source-only gem?
If it is a source-only gem, is there a way to handle this with
extconf.rb instead? While OS X has FreeBSD roots, the two don't have
completely compatible internals, so its hard to describe this in
RubyGems.
I'm in a similar situation with gems that aren't particular to any
version of a given platform or compiler. For example, the sys-cpu
source for Solaris is the same for any version of Solaris, be it 2.6
or 2.10. Here's where a Gem::Platform::SOLARIS would be very handy.
Is there any chance of adding these? If not, what are my options
outside of building a gem on every platform?
You should be able to hand-specify a platform with something like
Gem::Platform.new 'x86-freebsd', but there seems to be a bug.
Currently Gem::Platform is rather strict, as it is easier to make it
more permissive in future releases than less permissive in future
releases.
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