From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2002-05-24T12:42:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in Redhat 7.3

On Fri 24 May 2002 at 10:01:03 +0900, Dat Nguyen wrote:

> Just installed Linux Redhat 7.3:
> 
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-19) [i386-linux]
> 
> Good job, congratulation! Ruby goes Redhat Linux stream.

That RPM is broken, though. It's configured to expect modules in
/usr/local, which means that RPMs built against it will install into
the wrong place. It should have been built analogous to the Perl and
Python RPMs.

I've also filed this as a bug in RH's Bugzilla, but haven't received a
response as yet.

You can find a better RPM at http://www.caliban.org/files/redhat/
It adds a couple of recent resolv.rb patches from ruby-talk, plus also
builds properly on Red Hat 6.x systems. I put this together using the
broken .spec file from RH 7.3 as a starting point.

You'll find many other Ruby RPMs there, too, including mod_ruby, ri,
rdtool and lots of modules such as ruby-dbi, ruby-LDAP, SOAP4R, REXML,
etc. There are also daily snapshot RPMs of Ruby 1.7.2.

Go easy on the bandwidth, though. This is over a DSL link in my
apartment. I'll be getting the stuff mirrored at a site with more
bandwidth next week.

Ian
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