Feature #4924
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mkmf have_header fails with C++ headers
Description
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When a user calls (({have_header('some_cpp_header.h')})), and then header includes a line such as(({ #include })), mkmf will fail.
An example run follows:
-
extconf.rb
require 'mkmf'
have_library('stdc++')
have_header('BasicBlock.h')
create_makefile('laser/BasicBlock') -
mkmf.log
have_header: checking for BasicBlock.h... -------------------- no"gcc -E -I/Users/michaeledgar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/include/ruby-1.9.1/x86_64-darwin10.7.0 -I/Users/michaeledgar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/Users/michaeledgar/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-head/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I. -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wshorten-64-to-32 -Wno-long-long -fno-common -pipe conftest.c -o conftest.i"
In file included from conftest.c:3:
./BasicBlock.h:4:18: error: vector: No such file or directory
./BasicBlock.h:5:21: error: exception: No such file or directory
./BasicBlock.h:6:21: error: stdexcept: No such file or directory
checked program was:
/* begin /
1: #include "ruby.h"
2:
3: #include <BasicBlock.h>
/ end */
The issue here is that the temporary file created to perform the header test is ((%conftest.c%)), not ((%conftest.cc%)) or ((%conftest.cpp%)). Changing the
name of the file and re-running gcc gives success.
In ((%mkmf.rb%)), have_header executes cpp_command, which creates the shell command to run. However, cpp_command uses the constant (({CONFTEST_C = "conftest.c"})). It should use a new constant, (({CONFTEST_CPP = "conftest.cc"})).
I've attached a patch that does this as expected. Tests pass; I'm unsure precisely how to construct
a test case that would be appropriate for the Ruby trunk. There are very few guiding examples in the
existing test suite.
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