I have ruby 1.9.2 rpms

Michal Babej mbabej at redhat.com
Fri Jun 3 00:11:21 UTC 2011


Hi,

On 06/02/11 23:37, Christopher McCrory wrote:
>
> correct.  Changing the spec file to install in parallel isn't hard.
> IIRC, add --suffix=192, append 192 in a few places, and exclude
> libruby.so .  But I found that either ruby without gems is not very
> useful :(  One of my goals is to get a ruby 1.9.2 stack to run puppet.
> So many gems are required that doing dual gem rpms is too much work for
> me.
>
> It would really help if ruby could search both 1.8 and 1.9.1 directories
> for gems ala perl.
I don't think that can ever work for compiled (native) C extensions. 
AFAIK they (ruby 1.8 and 1.9.1) are not ABI compatible.

  -- mb


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