[openbeos] Re: HaikuPorts
- From: "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:50:19 -0700
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Olivier Coursière
<olivier.coursiere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andreas Färber wrote:
>>
>> It would be nice to have the Ruby 1.9 port documented, for instance.
>
> Well, not a lot to say to compile it under Haiku :
>
> - get the tools :the development package, subversion and a working version
> of ruby (a BeOS one) should be enough.
> - get the sources
> - Download the patch from the feature request :
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/403
> - Apply it to the sources
> - ./configure --disable-rpath prefix=/boot/home/config
> - make
> - make install
> - enjoy it ! or fix it...
>
> --disable-rpath was needed to fix a problem with a -Wl option. I don't have
> a better solution yet.
>
> The same should still probably work with my older 1.8 patch (but i think
> ruby is not required) available here : http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/2041.
> It should also correct the problem shown here (but not tested) :
> http://ports.haiku-files.org/wiki/dev-lang/ruby/1.8.7-p22/1. (there was the
> same problem with ruby 1.9, but i don't remember which line in configure.in
> or makefile.in fix it).
>
> I don't think there is more to add on HaikuPorts until a definitive answer
> about the patch in the main ruby source tree.
>
> I just read a comment about the patch in the ruby bugtracker. I will answer
> it right now ;-)
>
> Olivier
>
>
I see the config.guess/config.sub patch scared them. I usually give
the patch without those two and then tell them to update to a
config.guess/sub that has a timestamp of 2008-01-08 / 2008-01-16, then
it's a little less scary to them.
-scottmc
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