From: culley harrelson <culley@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T05:15:40+09:00
Subject: ruby 1.8 in the freebsd ports tree

Does anyone have ruby 1.8 + libraries working from the freebsd ports 
tree?  I have ruby 1.6 and ruby 1.8 installed from ports but any attempt 
to install other ruby ports puts them in the 1.6 library.  Upon 
installation the 1.8 port says:

==
To build a ruby related port for Ruby 1.8, define RUBY_VER=1.8 on the
make command line or in /etc/make.conf.  If you want to use Ruby 1.8
as the default instead of 1.6, define RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.8 also.
==

But this seems to have no effect when, for instance, trying to 
re-install ruby-rmail into the 1.8 library.  I have updated 
/etc/make.conf, tried passing in the parameter to make via portupgrade, 
tried making the port without portupgrade and tried setting RUBY_VER and 
RUBY_DEFAULT_VER as environment variables.

I wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions before I break away from 
the ports tree and install these manually.  I have also asked on the 
freebsd-questions mailing list.

culley