Re: Ruby 2.0 support

Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> writes:

> James McCoy <jamessan_at_debian.org> writes:
>
>> Updated patch attached.
>
> I tried Ruby 1.8.7 and 2.1.2 and the regression tests pass so I
> committed this in r1596882. Thanks!

I think our Ruby installation stuff is a bit broken. We have

  --with-ruby-sitedir=SITEDIR
                          install Ruby bindings in SITEDIR (default is same as
                          ruby's one)

Ruby, at least since 1.8.7, has both sitedir and vendordir. vendordir
is the system installation, typically under /usr, while sitedir is the
local stuff, typically under /usr/local.

I have Debian/wheezy 1.8.7 ruby and it has

sitedir /usr/local/share/ruby/site_ruby
sitelibdir /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8
sitearchdir /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux

vendordir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
vendorlibdir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8
vendorarchdir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux

I have Debian/wheezy 1.9.1/1.9.3 ruby and it has

sitedir /usr/local/share/ruby/site_ruby
sitelibdir /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1
sitearchdir /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/x86_64-linux

vendordir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
vendorlibdir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.9.1
vendorarchdir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.9.1/x86_64-linux

Note that libdir is a prefix of sitedir for both vendor and site. That
allows us to generate installation paths when --with-ruby-sitedir is
used:

    AC_MSG_CHECKING([where to install Ruby extensions])
    AC_CACHE_VAL([svn_cv_ruby_sitedir_archsuffix],[
      svn_cv_ruby_sitedir_archsuffix="`echo "$rbconfig_sitearchdir" | \
                                        $SED -e "s,^$rbconfig_sitedir,,"`"
    ])
    SWIG_RB_SITE_ARCH_DIR="${svn_ruby_installdir}${svn_cv_ruby_sitedir_archsuffix}"
    AC_MSG_RESULT([$SWIG_RB_SITE_ARCH_DIR])

However that breaks down when libdir is not a prefix of sitedir.

I have Debian/sid 2.1.2 ruby and it has

sitedir /usr/local/lib/site_ruby
sitelibdir /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/2.1.0
sitearchdir /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/site_ruby

vendordir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
vendorlibdir /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.1.0
vendorarchdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ruby/vendor_ruby/2.1.0

I have Fedora/20 2.0.0 and it has

sitedir /usr/local/share/ruby/site_ruby
sitelibdir /usr/local/share/ruby/site_ruby/
sitearchdir /usr/local/lib64/ruby/site_ruby

vendordir /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby
vendorlibdir /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/
vendorarchdir /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby

On these systems we get the wrong installation directories. If I use

   ./configure --with-ruby-sitedir=/home/pm/ruby

the 1.8.7 system gives a reasonable looking:

 checking where to install Ruby extensions... /home/pm/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux

while the 2.1.2 system gives a very odd looking:

 checking where to install Ruby extensions... /home/pm/ruby/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/site_ruby

I'm not sure whether the different layout is due to the more modern Ruby
or the more modern OS.

-- 
Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
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