From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-09-12T05:16:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone running v1.9.2 with Ubuntu 10.04?

On 09/11/2010 12:25 PM, Mike Owens wrote:
> I hacked together a 1.9.2 deb source package based on the 1.9.1. As root,
> you can build binary packages from a clean chroot as follows:
>
> bash $ /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-createbuildenv
> bash $ cd /var/tmp&&  mkdir chroot
> bash $ tar -C /var/tmp/chroot -xzvf /var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz
> bash $ mount -t mount devpts /dev/pts
> bash $ mount proc -t proc chroot/proc
> bash $ chroot /var/data/tmp/bin/bash
> bash $ . /etc/lsb-release
> bash $ locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
> bash $ apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update
> bash $ apt-get --allow-unauthenticated -q -y install debhelper
> devscripts fakeroot \
>                            ruby curl fakeroot pbuilder git-core ssh wget
> bash $ cd /var/tmp
> bash $ git clone git://github.com/linterra/ruby1.9.2.git
> bash $ cd rsp&&  /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends
> bash $ fakeroot debian/rules clean
> bash $ dpkg-build -b
> bash $ exit
> bash $ umount chroot/dev/pts
> bash $ umount chroot/proc
> bash $ cd chroot/var/tmp/
> bash $ dpkg -i libruby1.9.2_1.9.2.0-1_i386.deb ruby1.9.2_1.9.2.0-1_i386.deb \
>                 libreadline-ruby1.9.2_1.9.2.0-1_i386.deb
> irb1.9.2_1.9.2.0-1_all.deb ... etc.
>
> You need to have pbuilder already installed on your system.
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Sam Weber<samweber01@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I had LoadError problems when my box was running Ruby v1.8.? and v1.9.2.
>> Since I didn't get an answer to a recent post about the issue, I decided
>> to uninstall both versions and attempt to get on v1.9.2.  But there's no
>> v1.9.2 package available yet for Ubuntu 10.04.  So should I attempt to
>> build from source?  I saw some posts about using RVM but the last thing
>> I want is another package managing layer.
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>
>>
>

If you just want to get a recent ruby running on one ubuntu host, the 
easiest thing is to build from source. Of course, that doesn't give you 
debs you can copy to other hosts (thanks, Mike, for writing that up). 
I've had no major issues with building ruby on various ubuntu hosts, 
except a gcc version problem (does not affect the gcc on 10.04) and some 
issues with tk and ruby 1.8 (does not affect 1.9.

If you want ruby 1.8.7 to work with the ubuntu-packaged Tk, make sure 
you configure ruby with:

   ./configure --enable-pthread

Then do "make" as usual.

Then, before the 'make install' step, go into ext/tk and do

   CONFIGURE_ARGS='--with-tcl-include=/usr/include/tcl8.5 
--with-tcllib=tcl8.5 --with-tklib=tk8.5' ruby extconf.rb && make

Then go into the tkutil subdir and build it the same way (not sure the 
args are needed here, but it seems ok).

Finally, you can make install.

But I guess you don't need any of this for 1.9.2... just do a generic build.