From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-09-06T07:32:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling ruby-1.8.6 on CentOS-4.5 with readline and ope

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

James Byrne wrote:
> James Byrne wrote:
> 
> I have discovered that running ./configure with the options 
> --with-readline-dir=/usr and --with-openssl-dir=/usr seems to have 
> solved the missing readline and openssl support problem.  Now I discover 
> that I can no longer find my installed gems.  Sigh.
> 
> So... I went to  cd /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rubygems-update-0.9.4 
> and ran ruby setup.rb.  Now I have to reload all of my gems I suppose 
> using gem install x --include-dependencies --remote.
> 
> sigh. sigh...
> 

I basically gave up trying to add open-source packages to RPM-based
package management systems for just this reason. Either you stay within
the repository system, or you don't. It's that simple. I haven't tried
.deb-based systems recently, but the last time I did, I had similar
problems.

It's a bit better with Gentoo, since the packaging system is *designed*
around source packages. The Gentoo Ruby herd is pretty active and most
gems that are at all popular -- rake, rspec, rails, hpricot, etc. -- are
packaged and show up in Gentoo "testing" within a few days of them
hitting the Gem repository.

If you need to stay with CentOS for some reason, at least upgrade to
CentOS 5 if you can. I forget which Ruby is there -- it's either 1.8.5
or 1.8.6. Or switch to Fedora 7 -- it's much more up to date and has
many more tested packages than CentOS or its RHEL parent.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFG3y6H8fKMegVjSM8RAvMxAJ4wiq6x1OQLsF/OtdirwpDYRgUuoQCfdVpb
hkZunr4MmjjAXpoWjUQFyFE=
=T+aR
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----