compile error with Ruby

[Alan DeKok]

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> Clearly, the tool that tells you what libraries to use should be part of
> the -dev package, so it's not present when the libraries aren't.

  Yeah, well...

> Unfortunately, in the case of perl that's difficult because the tool in
> question is perl itself, combined with a core module (Config) which must
> be present in order for perl to function.  Perl is a little too
> integrated with its own build system, and can't really fathom the idea
> that you'd build libperl but install perl without it.

  Yes.  That needs fixing upstream, I think.

> However, that should be the exception rather than the rule.  So, the
> equivalent problem with Ruby may in fact be a minor packaging problem,
> rather than the can of worms that it is with Perl.

  I've added some additional checks that *should* help work around this
issue.  See the recent git log for polite comments. :)

  Alan DeKok.