From owner-freebsd-ruby@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 19:03:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C066ECAF for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:03:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=65916b82c=pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com) Received: from ip-001.utdallas.edu (ip-001.utdallas.edu [129.110.20.107]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB538FC12 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:03:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Group: None X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqgIAPk7pVCBbgogOmdsb2JhbABEwlkBAQEBGQhLgl0CgWMaiCCbaYZYmlyRfGEDiFqgcw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.83,259,1352095200"; d="scan'208";a="106501912" Received: from zxtm01.utdallas.edu (HELO utd71538.utdallas.edu) ([129.110.10.32]) by ip-001.utdallas.edu with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 15 Nov 2012 13:03:35 -0600 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:03:34 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl To: FreeBSD Ruby List Subject: More problems than I care to think about Message-ID: <76BB3E3F07A4F68477B30C11@utd71538.campus.ad.utdallas.edu> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.1.0a1 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; size=1305 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ruby@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:03:45 -0000 I've been trying to port Snorby to FreeBSD. Emphasis on trying. I run into problems at every turn, and some seem unresolvable. Snorby requires ruby 1.9.2 or better. The default version on FreeBSD is 1.8. Putting RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.9 in /etc/make.conf breaks some of the rubygem ports that will only build on 1.8. sysutils/rubygem-bundler was giving me fits. I discovered that while the port version is 1.1.5, the current version, which fixes the problems I was having, is 1.2.2. I created a port update for that and was going to submit it, but then I discovered devel/rubygem-eventmachine "blows up" with a core dump if built with 1.9. This is beyond discouraging and has caused me to abandon the project entirely. It seems that we need a massive effort to update ruby and rails and all gems to the latest versions. Who is responsible for that? How can we get that done? -- Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell