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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>,
	David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Cc: "notmuch@notmuchmail.org" <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: ruby: building with CFLAGS="something"
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 22:08:57 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27djy7aye.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1vK7RThN5+xCo5_fK2GJo4_Oc+MuA8ehn=UGYRezRc5A@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, May 16 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 7:28 AM David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The rest of the (C and C++) codebase supports
>>
>>     make CFLAGS="-g -O0"
>>
>> or
>>
>>     CFLAGS="-g -O0" ./configure
>>
>> but the ruby bindings don't build:
>
> That's because -fPIC is needed.
>
> The way Ruby's mkmf generates the Makefile is wrong, because it should do:
>
>   override CFLAGS+=-fPIC
>
> So that the user can specify other CFLAGS.
>
> However, we can fix that by doing that ourselves:
>
> --- a/bindings/Makefile.local
> +++ b/bindings/Makefile.local
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_RUBY_DEV),1)
>                 LIBNOTMUCH="../../lib/$(LINKER_NAME)" \
>                 NOTMUCH_SRCDIR='$(NOTMUCH_SRCDIR)' \
>                 $(RUBY) extconf.rb --vendor
> -       $(MAKE) -C $(dir)/ruby
> +       $(MAKE) -C $(dir)/ruby CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS) -pipe -fno-plt -fPIC"

forget my suggestion -- also in general, usually, make variables have more
"power" than defining such a thing in environment (would not be in those
cases there is intermediate wrapper which does not get the make variable...)

Tomi

>  endif
>
> We lose -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic (at least on my machine), but I
> guess that's not a big deal since libnotmuch itself isn't getting
> compiled with those.
>
> I'll send a patch soonish.
>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
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      reply	other threads:[~2021-05-16 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-16 12:28 ruby: building with CFLAGS="something" David Bremner
2021-05-16 18:41 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-16 19:08   ` Tomi Ollila [this message]

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