RPM for 1.8.0

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I would like to get / build a Mandrake 9.1 RPM for Ruby-1.8.0 Preview 3
for distribution to a bunch of machines.

Does anybody have such a beast or a 1.8 .spec file?

Thanks,

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

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your system.

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I would like to get / build a Mandrake 9.1 RPM for Ruby-1.8.0 Preview 3
for distribution to a bunch of machines.

Does anybody have such a beast or a 1.8 .spec file?

Thanks,

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
your system.

ruby.spec (6.92 KB)

ruby-info.patch (2.49 KB)

ruby-curses-terminfo.patch (723 Bytes)

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On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 19:44, John Carter wrote:

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Aredridel’s .spec file was a good start. It seems to be a RedHat rather
than Mandrake .spec, but using
%configure
instead of
%configure2_13
solved the first problem.

And removing the --enable-shared solved the
next.

However I’m stuck on another problem.

Although I can build 1.8.0 Preview3 straight out the box, no problem, as
part of the
rpm -bb
I now get…
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:785:in init_mkmf': uninitialized constant CONFIG (NameError) from /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:816 from ./ext/extmk.rb:28:inrequire’
from ./ext/extmk.rb:28

Which is a bit weird.

Any ideas?

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
your system.

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You can get RPMs of Ruby 1.8 from my Web site:

Ruby Projects

You’ll also find many, many modules and extensions in RPM form here:

http://www.caliban.org/files/redhat/RPMS/i386/

Ian

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On Thu 26 Jun 2003 at 11:44:00 +0900, John Carter wrote:

Aredridel’s .spec file was a good start. It seems to be a RedHat rather
than Mandrake .spec, but using
%configure
instead of
%configure2_13
solved the first problem.

And removing the --enable-shared solved the
next.

However I’m stuck on another problem.

Although I can build 1.8.0 Preview3 straight out the box, no problem, as
part of the
rpm -bb
I now get…
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:785:in init_mkmf': uninitialized constant CONFIG (NameError) from /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:816 from ./ext/extmk.rb:28:in require’
from ./ext/extmk.rb:28

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>

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Hi,

Aredridel’s .spec file was a good start. It seems to be a RedHat rather
than Mandrake .spec, but using
%configure
instead of
%configure2_13
solved the first problem.

What does %configure2_13? 1.8.0 needs autoconf 2.50 or later.

And removing the --enable-shared solved the
next.

What problem?

Although I can build 1.8.0 Preview3 straight out the box, no problem, as
part of the
rpm -bb
I now get…
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:785:in init_mkmf': uninitialized constant CONFIG (NameError) from /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:816 from ./ext/extmk.rb:28:in require’
from ./ext/extmk.rb:28

Has rbconfig.rb been made properly? Maybe empty?

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At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:44:00 +0900, John Carter wrote:

–
Nobu Nakada

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Removing the --enable-shared stops the following crash…
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:367: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-23) [i586-linux-gnu]

rbconfig.rb does exist, (a bizp2 compress version of it is attached)
and seems to have reasonable things in it,
“miniruby -c rbconfig.rb”
reports “Syntax OK”

Trying to run mkmf.rb reports a BUG…

cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/
…/miniruby -I… mkmf.rb
: [BUG] unknown node type 0
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-23) [i586-linux-gnu]

Running…
valgrind …/miniruby -I… mkmf.rb

I get a lot of… (in addition to usual gc stuff)

==2840== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==2840== at 0x806D918: mark_locations_array (in
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/miniruby)
==2840== by 0x808D25A: yycompile (in
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/miniruby)

rbconfig.rb.bz2 (1.82 KB)

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

Hi,

At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:44:00 +0900, > John Carter wrote:

Aredridel’s .spec file was a good start. It seems to be a RedHat rather
than Mandrake .spec, but using
%configure
instead of
%configure2_13
solved the first problem.

What does %configure2_13? 1.8.0 needs autoconf 2.50 or later.

And removing the --enable-shared solved the
next.

What problem?

Although I can build 1.8.0 Preview3 straight out the box, no problem, as
part of the
rpm -bb
I now get…
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:785:in init_mkmf': uninitialized constant CONFIG (NameError) from /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:816 from ./ext/extmk.rb:28:in require’
from ./ext/extmk.rb:28

Has rbconfig.rb been made properly? Maybe empty?

–
Nobu Nakada

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
your system.

7

Unfortunately Mandrake 9.1 seems to have diverged too far from RedHat for
these to be usable.

Thanks,

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
your system.

···

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Ian Macdonald wrote:

You can get RPMs of Ruby 1.8 from my Web site:

Ruby Projects

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In article 200306260507.h5Q57vuG016989@sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp,

Hi,

Aredridel’s .spec file was a good start. It seems to be a RedHat rather
than Mandrake .spec, but using
%configure
instead of
%configure2_13
solved the first problem.

What does %configure2_13? 1.8.0 needs autoconf 2.50 or later.

One thing which tripped me up for a while in mandrake was that I needed
two autoconfs to be installed to be able to build a lot of open source
software - what does the original poster have installed?

[mike@ratdog mike]$ rpm -qa | grep autoconf
autoconf-2.13-16mdk
autoconf2.5-2.57-3mdk

Sorry if this is a red herring (false lead)

Mike

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At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:44:00 +0900, >John Carter wrote:
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Hi,

Aredridel’s .spec file was a good start. It seems to be a RedHat rather
than Mandrake .spec, but using
%configure
instead of
%configure2_13
solved the first problem.

What does %configure2_13? 1.8.0 needs autoconf 2.50 or later.

My PLD spec file uses %configure2_13 until I can figure out why the 2.5
version puts blanks on the commandline and causes the build error I had
a couple days ago. The 2_13 version happens to work well enough, just
gives a single warning.

And removing the --enable-shared solved the
next.

What problem?

Although I can build 1.8.0 Preview3 straight out the box, no problem, as
part of the
rpm -bb
I now get…
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:785:in init_mkmf': uninitialized constant CONFIG (NameError) from /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/mkmf.rb:816 from ./ext/extmk.rb:28:in require’
from ./ext/extmk.rb:28

Has rbconfig.rb been made properly? Maybe empty?

That sounds like problems with your distro’s configure macro as well.
You might try doing it manually, with:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Though I hate to do that with PLD since it puts things in totally
FHS-compliant places with it’s native macro.

Ari

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On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 23:08, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:44:00 +0900, > John Carter wrote:

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Hi,

cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/
…/miniruby -I… mkmf.rb
: [BUG] unknown node type 0
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-23) [i586-linux-gnu]

It’s a bug of ruby. Could you show us the stack trace?

Running…
valgrind …/miniruby -I… mkmf.rb

I get a lot of… (in addition to usual gc stuff)

==2840== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==2840== at 0x806D918: mark_locations_array (in
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/miniruby)
==2840== by 0x808D25A: yycompile (in
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/miniruby)

I’m not sure if it would be a problem.

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At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:42:48 +0900, John Carter wrote:

–
Nobu Nakada

11

How hard would it be to write a ruby program that generated a set of
{S,}RPMs from the tarball? (A genuine question - I don’t know too much
about packaging issues).

martin

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John Carter john.carter@tait.co.nz wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Ian Macdonald wrote:

You can get RPMs of Ruby 1.8 from my Web site:

Ruby Projects

Unfortunately Mandrake 9.1 seems to have diverged too far from RedHat for
these to be usable.

12

PLD takes another stance – instead of installing both, they patch all
the source to be 2.5 compatible. It’s pretty easy, usually.

Ari

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On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 05:53, Mike Stok wrote:

In article 200306260507.h5Q57vuG016989@sharui.nakada.kanuma.tochigi.jp,
nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

Hi,

At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:44:00 +0900, > >John Carter wrote:

Aredridel’s .spec file was a good start. It seems to be a RedHat rather
than Mandrake .spec, but using
%configure
instead of
%configure2_13
solved the first problem.

What does %configure2_13? 1.8.0 needs autoconf 2.50 or later.

One thing which tripped me up for a while in mandrake was that I needed
two autoconfs to be installed to be able to build a lot of open source
software - what does the original poster have installed?

13

rpm -qa | grep autoconf
autoconf-2.13-16mdk
autoconf2.5-2.57-3mdk

Nope, that doesn’t seem to be the problem. In any case autoconf is the
step before configure, and isn’t run by the .spec file.

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
your system.

···

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Mike Stok wrote:

One thing which tripped me up for a while in mandrake was that I needed
two autoconfs to be installed to be able to build a lot of open source
software - what does the original poster have installed?

[mike@ratdog mike]$ rpm -qa | grep autoconf
autoconf-2.13-16mdk
autoconf2.5-2.57-3mdk

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Sorry, thats all there is. There is no stack trace. Nothing more than that
is printed out.

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

Hi,

At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:42:48 +0900, > John Carter wrote:

cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/lib/
…/miniruby -I… mkmf.rb
: [BUG] unknown node type 0
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-23) [i586-linux-gnu]

It’s a bug of ruby. Could you show us the stack trace?

Running…
valgrind …/miniruby -I… mkmf.rb

I get a lot of… (in addition to usual gc stuff)

==2840== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==2840== at 0x806D918: mark_locations_array (in
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/miniruby)
==2840== by 0x808D25A: yycompile (in
/usr/src/RPM/BUILD/ruby-1.8.0/miniruby)

I’m not sure if it would be a problem.

–
Nobu Nakada

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
your system.

15

That’s what the .spec file is – a set of instructions for packaging a
set of sources as an RPM.

Ari

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On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 00:51, Martin DeMello wrote:

John Carter john.carter@tait.co.nz wrote:

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Ian Macdonald wrote:

You can get RPMs of Ruby 1.8 from my Web site:

Ruby Projects

Unfortunately Mandrake 9.1 seems to have diverged too far from RedHat for
these to be usable.

How hard would it be to write a ruby program that generated a set of
{S,}RPMs from the tarball? (A genuine question - I don’t know too much
about packaging issues).

16

Hi,

Sorry, thats all there is. There is no stack trace. Nothing more than that
is printed out.

Try

$ gdb …/miniruby

run -I… mkmf.rb

and “bt” after SEGV.

BTW, what CFLAGS do you compile with?

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At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:34:51 +0900, John Carter wrote:

–
Nobu Nakada

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bt
#0 0x400a0481 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#1 0x400a0215 in raise () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#2 0x400a176b in abort () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
#3 0x080d5a6e in rb_bug (fmt=0x0) at error.c:191
#4 0x0805a771 in module_setup (module=1076033948, n=0x4022fa78) at eval.c:3675
#5 0x08059a96 in rb_eval (self=1075685964, n=0x0) at eval.c:3600

Which flags? Well that was interesting. If I tried with my standard
see everything in the stack frame flags -g -O0, the problem went away!

So I put the old flags back one by one and found the old
vomit-frame-point, (sorry that should be -fomit), was the culprit.

Sounds to me like an uninitialised variable somewhere. (Anybody have a
Valgrind suppressions file for ruby-1.8.0?)

Since it has -fomit-frame-pointer, in I’m not sure how helpful the
backtrace really is.

Going up to frame #4…
frame 4
#4 0x0805a771 in module_setup (module=1076033948, n=0x4022fa78) at eval.c:3675
3675 result = rb_eval(ruby_cbase, node->nd_next);

p *node
$3 = {flags = 84940863, nd_file = 0x8161919 “./rbconfig.rb”, u1 = {node = 0x0, id = 0, value = 0,
cfunc = 0, tbl = 0x0}, u2 = {node = 0x0, id = 0, argc = 0, value = 0}, u3 = {
node = 0x40233dd0, id = 1076051408, state = 1076051408, entry = 0x40233dd0, cnt = 1076051408,
value = 1076051408}}

(gdb) p n
$6 = (NODE *) 0x4022fa78
(gdb) p *n
$7 = {flags = 2787391, nd_file = 0x8161919 “./rbconfig.rb”, u1 = {node = 0x401aebf4,
id = 1075506164, value = 1075506164, cfunc = 0x401aebf4, tbl = 0x401aebf4}, u2 = {
node = 0x4022fa8c, id = 1076034188, argc = 1076034188, value = 1076034188}, u3 = {node = 0x0,
id = 0, state = 0, entry = 0x0, cnt = 0, value = 0}}

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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

Hi,

At Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:34:51 +0900, > John Carter wrote:

Sorry, thats all there is. There is no stack trace. Nothing more than that
is printed out.

Try

$ gdb …/miniruby

run -I… mkmf.rb

and “bt” after SEGV.

BTW, what CFLAGS do you compile with?

–
Nobu Nakada

John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639
Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@tait.co.nz
New Zealand

A Million Monkeys can inflict worse things than just Shakespeare on
your system.