Thrift Ruby gem

Question

I cannot, for the life of me, successfully run \"gem install thrift\", the thing fails when building the gem\'s native extensions; this is the output:

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Answer 1

rather than use a workaround with cppflags I committed a fix which checks for __has_builtin(strlcpy) and if builtins are not available on the system but strlcpy is defined then it uses externs as it previously did. works on os x 10.8, 10.9, centos, ubuntu, ...