[ANN] Ruby 1.8.6 has been released

ruby-talk
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Hello,

I am pleased to announce that Ruby 1.8.6, the latest release from the
1.8 stable branch, has finally been released.

This version of Ruby is a steady and reasonable enhancement of the 1.8
series including many bug and security fixes, standard library
updates, feature enhancements and performance improvements keeping
high backward compatibility with the previous release (1.8.5).

The source code tarballs are available in several formats at the
following locations:

  ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2
  ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6.zip

Checksums:
  MD5 (ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2) = e558a0e00ae318d43bf6ff9af452bad2
  SHA256 (ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2) = 0fc6ad0b31d8ec3997db2a56a2ac1c235283a3607abb876300fc711b3f8e3dd7
  SIZE (ruby-1.8.6.tar.bz2) = 3946186

  MD5 (ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz) = 23d2494aa94e7ae1ecbbb8c5e1507683
  SHA256 (ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz) = 3ef37fb961d04471a1aef2c8079d6fab09932e3281d79859d5cd5d426bde0868
  SIZE (ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz) = 4589394

  MD5 (ruby-1.8.6.zip) = 5f4b82cec8f437634e05a3ce9bb3ca67
  SHA256 (ruby-1.8.6.zip) = c4b011d66b3f7e3bddbdf61a7404120d5ac80c6b742ad08e7e75b6d14ee56e76
  SIZE (ruby-1.8.6.zip) = 5545642

For a brief list of user visible changes and a full list of all
changes since 1.8.5, see the bundled files named NEWS and ChangeLog,
which are also available at the following locations:

  http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_6/NEWS
  http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_8_6/ChangeLog

After this announcement, we will start the development for 1.8.7 as
well as maintaining the "ruby_1_8_6" branch on which only critical
bugs and security vulnerabilities found in the 1.8.6 release are
fixed, and patch releases will follow on appropriate and timely
occasions. Please check them out after upgrading Ruby to 1.8.6.

Finally, I'd like to thank all those who helped me with the release
engineering. All your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

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"Different eyes see different things,
    Different hearts beat on different strings --
       But there are times for you and me when all such things agree"

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Akinori MUSHA wrote:

Hello,

I am pleased to announce that Ruby 1.8.6, the latest release from the
1.8 stable branch, has finally been released.

\

PPC PowerBook G4, Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8L127) Darwin 8.8.0

making ruby
gcc -Wall -g -pipe -fno-common -DRUBY_EXPORT -L/opt/local/lib -L. main.o -lruby-static -ldl -lobjc -o ruby
/usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _setregid
/opt/local/lib/libruby-static.a(process.o) definition of _setregid in section (__TEXT,__text)
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libdl.dylib(setregid.So) definition of _setregid
/usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _setreuid
/opt/local/lib/libruby-static.a(process.o) definition of _setreuid in section (__TEXT,__text)
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libdl.dylib(setreuid.So) definition of _setreuid
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_ruby_init_stack
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [ruby] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
ruby-1.8.6$

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I am pleased to announce that Ruby 1.8.6, the latest release from the
1.8 stable branch, has finally been released.

\

PPC PowerBook G4, Mac OS X 10.4.8 (8L127) Darwin 8.8.0

making ruby
gcc -Wall -g -pipe -fno-common -DRUBY_EXPORT -L/opt/local/lib -L. main.o -lruby-static -ldl -lobjc -o ruby
/usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _setregid
/opt/local/lib/libruby-static.a(process.o) definition of _setregid in section (__TEXT,__text)
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libdl.dylib(setregid.So) definition of _setregid
/usr/bin/ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol _setreuid
/opt/local/lib/libruby-static.a(process.o) definition of _setreuid in section (__TEXT,__text)
/usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libdl.dylib(setreuid.So) definition of _setreuid
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_ruby_init_stack
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [ruby] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
ruby-1.8.6$

It's working for me...

Darwin MacBookPro 8.8.2 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

First I set... CFLAGS=-O

then...

./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-pthread --with-readline-dir=/usr/local
make
make install
make install-doc

and it all went through fine... happy to share anything else that might help if you tell me what it is you need.

-philip

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gcc -Wall -g -pipe -fno-common -DRUBY_EXPORT -L/opt/local/lib -L. main.o -lruby-static -ldl -lobjc -o ruby

The ruby you are building is linking against the ruby lib in /opt/local/lib. Can you try moving that out of the way first?

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Leopard?

-faisal

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On Mar 12, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

Darwin MacBookPro 8.8.2 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

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Philip Hallstrom wrote:

It's working for me...

Sigh. No help.

lib$ uname -a
Darwin Timothy-Hunters-Computer.local 8.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
lib$ gcc --version
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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Caleb Tennis wrote:

gcc -Wall -g -pipe -fno-common -DRUBY_EXPORT -L/opt/local/lib -L. main.o -lruby-static -ldl -lobjc -o ruby

The ruby you are building is linking against the ruby lib in /opt/local/lib. Can you try moving that out of the way first?

That's the ticket! In fact this morning I had an email from Patrick Georgi, who said:

    Anyway: it tries to link /opt/local/lib/libruby-static.a, which is
    very likely the old version.

    Either remove that file on build-time (it will be recreated when you
    install), or change the command line to
    gcc -Wall -g -pipe -fno-common -DRUBY_EXPORT -L/opt/local/lib -L.
    main.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lobjc -o ruby

    ie. change -lruby-static.a to libruby-static.a

    I had the same problem on Solaris.

I did as he recommended an now everything is working perfectly. Thanks, Patrick and Caleb!

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I installed Ruby the hivelogic.com way, how do I upgrade it? (How to
remove the old version and install this one?)

Does this will affect my gems and ri docs?

Thanks

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On 3/13/07, Faisal N Jawdat <faisal@faisal.com> wrote:

On Mar 12, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> Darwin MacBookPro 8.8.2 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28
> 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

Leopard?

-faisal

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No. Not unless they gave me a free upgrade and installed it without me knowing about it :slight_smile:

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On Mar 12, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

Darwin MacBookPro 8.8.2 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

Leopard?

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IIRC gcc 4.0.1 does have it's problems. Maybe you can try compiling with gcc 3. Just
do a "gcc_select 3.x" where 3.x is the version of gcc 3 installed on your system.

Urban
- --

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On Mar 12, 2007, at 23:19 , Timothy Hunter wrote:

Philip Hallstrom wrote:

It's working for me...

Sigh. No help.

lib$ uname -a
Darwin Timothy-Hunters-Computer.local 8.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep 8 17:18:57 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
lib$ gcc --version
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5247)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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I installed Ruby the hivelogic.com way, how do I upgrade it? (How to
remove the old version and install this one?)

Does this will affect my gems and ri docs?

Don't know if it's right, but i just installed the same way as before and have the new version... if you do a "make install-doc" you'll get the new docs.

Dont' know about gems either, but my rails dev sites still work (running 1.1.6 and 1.2.2) so that's a good sign... and breakpoint now works too!

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Thanks

On 3/13/07, Faisal N Jawdat <faisal@faisal.com> wrote:

On Mar 12, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> Darwin MacBookPro 8.8.2 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28
> 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

Leopard?

-faisal

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Interesting. I have 8.8.0 on my PPC machine, and 8.8.1 on the Intel machine. The PPC machine has no end of problems with Ruby (mostly with gems), though.

-faisal

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On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

On Mar 12, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

Darwin MacBookPro 8.8.2 Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.14.14.obj~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386

Leopard?

No. Not unless they gave me a free upgrade and installed it without me knowing about it :slight_smile:

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Congratulations on the release!

I also had some minor problems while upgrading from 1.8.5 to 1.8.6 on
Mac OS X.

I made some notes here explaining the problems and how to work around
them:

http://wincent.com/knowledge-base/Building_and_installing_Ruby_1.8.6_on_Mac_OS_X_Tiger

As far as I know none of this is the result of bugs in Ruby itself;
rather it seems to be peculiarities of Mac OS X and of my own setup.
The key configure options required are:

--with-readline-dir=/usr/local --enable-pthread

And in my case I also had to take care of a bad RUBYLIB environment
variable that was getting set in my bash_profile.

Cheers,
Wincent