rubygems/rubygems — pull request #261 by terceiro (2012-01-13 11:45:34+00:00)
Title: Verbose extension builder

The Debian Ruby packaging helper, [gem2deb](http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-ruby-extras/gem2deb.git;a=summary) uses Rubygems to build C extensions to make sure we are 100% compatible with Rubygems packages. When building Debian packages it's useful to follow the build as it goes, but currently Rubygems hides the compilation from the user -- what makes a lot of sente.

This branch makes the extension builder output terminal as the build proceeds upon request. `gem install --verbose` will enable this behavior, and gem2deb would enable it by setting `Gem.configuration.verbose` directly. The default is to behave as it does now, i.e. to not output anything unless something goes wrong.