Cannot build 2 extensions about ffi-compiler HOT 4 CLOSED

Oh by the way, I tried with extconf.rb for both libraries and it builds them both.

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Take ffi-compiler out of the equation - e.g. just have the Rakefile for each of those projects create a file, and see if that works.

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Well, I can confirm that it has nothing to do with ffi-compiler. This is the content of my two Rake files:

desc "do something"
task :default do
  `echo "ET phone home" > anyonethere.txt`
end

And only the first one runs and creates a TXT file.

Question: is there any advantage in using a Rakefile instead of a standard extconf.rb with mkmf?

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The advantages of using a Rakefile vs extconf.rb are minor: extconf.rb must generate a Makefile - that means you have to deal with the vagaries of a multitude of make implementations - with a Rakefile, you only need to deal with Rake.

Anyway, it looks like the problem you've hit is with rubygems - you can report it to them, but in the mean time, you will have to work around it by having an intermediate Rakefile that then calls rake on each of your other Rakefiles.

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