RFE: ruby-1.8.6 - patch adds a working universal variant

[eloy.de.enige@…]

This patch adds an extra patchfile which patches ruby 1.8.6 so that it will build universal and patch mkmf.rb so that it will correctly build C extensions that use extconf. The patch also fixes an endian problem when compiling on an intel mac.

The patches are inspired by apple's patches to ruby-1.8.2 but updated for 1.8.6

All tests pass on i386 and ppc.

[ryandesign@…]

Interesting. Do any of these changes need to be submitted for inclusion upstream?

[eloy.de.enige@…]

Sorry to ask a possible dumb question, but what do you mean by "inclusion upstream"?

[ryandesign@…]

I mean: should any of these patches be delivered to the Ruby developers for inclusion directly in Ruby? There are people using Ruby on Macs who are not using MacPorts. Wouldn't they benefit from this too?

I was also curious to know where you found Apple's patches to ruby-1.8.2.

[eloy.de.enige@…]

Ah yes, I was thinking about this too indeed. I will have a look at this tomorrow to double check if there's anything that might break a regular ruby installation for non mac users.

Yes the Apple patches are invaluable :) at some point I figured Apple had to put these patches online somewhere... They're available at: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4.9.x86/ruby-22.0.1/

[eloy.de.enige@…]

Added a new patch which removes the dependency on autoconf and thus on perl (which isn't universal atm), so it should now be possible to have a fresh macports installation and only issue: $port install ruby +universal And all dependencies should be build universal and without the bloat of perl.

Please check if the new patch-configure patch contains anything that it shouldn't contain, because I'm by no means a configure genius.

[imajes@…]

will take this onboard for inclusion...