FreeBSD Port: ruby18-1.8.2_2

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:11:48 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:55:22 -0500, Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu>  
> wrote:
>
>> At 11:36 PM -0600 2/21/05, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried this on powerPC, and ruby built fine.  I haven't tested
>>>> it much, but the things I tested seem to work fine.
>>>>
>>>> I tried it on sparc64, and ruby didn't build.  The attempt
>>>> ended with:
>>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Ruby has few '__sparc__' and '__sparc_v9__' in the very few places,
>>> but none of '__sparc64__'. Are there any chance that it will need
>>> to add a new define, '__sparc64__', to make ruby works better? I am
>>> lacking on knowlege of programming, so someone with the programming
>>> knowledge should take a look at those.
>>>
>>> =======================================
>>> # find . -name \* | xargs egrep -l "sparc"
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/config.guess
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/config.sub
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure.in
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/defines.h
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/dln.c
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/gc.c
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/doc/ChangeLog-1.8.0
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/ext/digest/sha1/sha1.c
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure.lineno
>>> ./work/ruby-1.8.2/configure.bak
>>> =======================================
>>>
>>> Looks like about four to five files that need to take a look at.
>>
>> Hmm.  Note that ruby-1.8.2_1 is installed and working fine on my
>> sparc64 machine.  Has all that much changed between ruby-1.8.2_1
>> and ruby-1.8.2_2 ?
>
> Yes, it enables thread support by default now to reduce the  
> problem/complicate for other ports that depend on ruby, but turned out  
> another problem for different ${ARCH} too. So far from what I can see is  
> to disable thread support in ruby for only different ${ARCH} that don't  
> work. It means, few ports will be disable like maybe ruby-opengl and few  
> others. I personal never have test disable thread support in all version  
> of FreeBSD with louix or my change to see if others ports that required

Oops, wrong person, it's lofi.. My plan of tonight or tomorrow is to still  
use this new patch then reinstall it. Also, rebuild/reinstall all apps  
that depend on ruby. After that I am going to test on few ruby ports that  
need threads (ruby-opengl, ruby-gtk2, ruby-gnome2 and etc) to see if they  
still will working or not. I am hoping that lofi will have time to test it  
on FreeBSD 4.x.

New patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/ruby18.diff

Be sure to 'rm -rf /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/*' and update your ports tree  
before you use this patch. The difference between ruby-1.8.2_2 to new  
patch is that disable thread again, teach ruby about ${PTHREAD_*}, and use  
patches from Gentoo/Debian.

If this new patch doesn't work, then I guess one of us will have to mark  
ruby-opengl and few other that require threads as broke for on sparc64 and  
other ${ARCH} and disable thread support in ruby. It's a lot better than  
re-create a voodoo '_r'.

Cheers,
Mezz

> thread support in ruby will work. I don't mind to test it, but I can't  
> test on FreeBSD 4.x and 6.x thought.
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz


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