From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T04:52:06+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby on pure 64-bit computer

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:59:42 +0900, Brad Tilley wrote:

> I recently obtained a AMD x2 5200+ 64 bit cpu and motherboard. I have installed
> Debian's AMD-64 port and plan to test my Ruby scripts on the new machine soon.
> Is there anything I need to be aware of when using Ruby in a pure 64 bit
> environment? Any gotchas? I have not checked, but I assume Debian has deb
> (binary packages to install), if not I will build Ruby from Source... perhaps
> that's prefered???

I use Ruby on Debian/AMD64. Debian has .deb packages of ruby, but you'll
need to install a rather long list to get the whole standard library:
ruby, irb, rdoc, libdbm-ruby1.8, libgdbm-ruby1.8, libopenssl-ruby1.8,
libreadline-ruby1.8, libtcltk-ruby1.8, ruby1.8-dev, libruby1.8-extras,
rubygems
(Debian is in need of a nice metapackage for all of it, and we're getting
too close to the Etch freeze for comfort)

Ruby on AMD64 works just fine.

--Ken

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Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/