Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 14:12:29 +0100 From: Eric <freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com> To: Steve Wills <steve@mouf.net>, "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> Cc: ruby@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ruby 1.9 update patch Message-ID: <CA02BECD.1F23C%freebsdlists-ruby@chillibear.com> In-Reply-To: <4DDCEDED.9030603@mouf.net>
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> From: Steve Wills <steve@mouf.net> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Thanks for the feedback! > > I was attempting to do some run time testing of this and stumbled upon a > strange issue. It seems that even without my patch (and with it too), if > you do this: > > cd /usr/ports/databases/ruby-bdb > env RUBY_VER=1.9 make install > > on a system without any ruby, it will install Ruby 1.9, then fail to > install the databases/ruby-bdb port since there will not be a "rdoc" > binary installed, but only "rdoc19". My patch doesn't make this worse, > but it doesn't help it either. Should I try to solve this and if so how? > > Steve That cropped up before here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ruby/2011-March/001169.html I half remember you get a rake19 command, etc when installing Ruby 1.9. You certainly get a ruby18 in /usr/local/bin for 1.8! Anyhow in the 1.9 Ruby Makefile you can see a small snippet of code which currently doesn't do anything, but would symlink those xxx19 scripts to the correct names if the default version was bumped. .if ${RUBY_VER} == ${RUBY_DEFAULT_VER} . for FILE in ${INSTALLED_SCRIPTS} ${LN} -f ${PREFIX}/bin/${FILE}${RUBY_SUFFIX} ${PREFIX}/bin/${FILE} . endfor .endif INSTALLED_SCRIPTS being: irb erb rdoc ri ruby testrb rake gem How that symlinking affects or interferes with some of the gem versions of those I don't know. I suppose we need to decide if the plan is to get the system so that a user could almost choose Ruby 1.8 or 1.9 as a default (Makefile option to do things like those symlinks?) or if we're getting it so that we can just flip the switch (RUBY_DEFAULT_VER) and make 1.9 a default in a future release. That said we'd want to make sure it was fairly trivial for a user to revert to a 1.8 install since it's still a popular version. Also I do keep meaning to test your 1.9 patch and try it out when I get some time! Promise! Regards Eric
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