[ruby-core:22274] Re: ruby-1.9.1-p0 build failure on i586

SASADA Koichi wrote:
> How to (try|debug) it?
> What is "buildhosts"?  common word?  Fedora word?
> 

Sorry, I may have forgotten to give a little background.

Our RPM packages are built in clean chroots. The utility used is called 
mock, and it works as follows:

- It sets up a chroot
- It installs a few basic packages such as gcc
- It copies in a Source RPM (cpio archive of tarball, .spec file and 
patches, if any)
- Installs the build requirements for the package that needs to be 
built, such as in the case of ruby, readline-devel, ncurses-devel, etc.
- It builds the binary package in this chroot

This mechanism allows us to compile software for another version of the 
Fedora linux distribution, then the one the system itself is running.

Our buildsystem, named koji, does the same thing on a larger scale and 
across multiple architectures. It's where we build packages before they 
are released as part of the distribution called Fedora. Any one of the 
hosts participating in building our packages, we call a buildhost. These 
buildhosts get told (through koji) to build a certain source package 
into a binary package, and for that purpose, use mock.

Attached is my .spec file. It carries one patch that is backported from 
SVN; see also http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1166 I have 
attached that patch here as well for convenience

Along with the tarball from 
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p0.tar.gz, this is what 
I use to build an RPM I can test with:

rpmbuild -ba --target=i586 ruby.spec

Hope this helps, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate,

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip