Re: arm64 update - help wanted
On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 22:49 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:20:53PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 02:10 +0100, Wookey wrote:
> > > Also if anyone has expertise in language porting we'd like to hear
> > > from you. Below is the list of languages we believe still need porting to arm64:
> >
> > Ruby wasn't on the list, is that under control?
> >
> > Ruby seems to be at the bottom of the build-dep chain for the kernel
> > (linux->patchutils->rpm->libsemanage->ruby).
>
> The code is ported, but starting at 1.9 Ruby needs an existing Ruby
> interpreter to build. Ruby 1.8 needs only gcc-4.6 ... which needs
> patchutils. So we got ourselves a loop there.
FWIW I managed to build ruby1.8 with gcc-4.9 using the patch below. I
don't know if it works though.
> I have just committed a change to ruby that AFAICT will actually allow
> it to be built against ruby1.8 ( http://deb.li/nZlv ), any ideas on how
> to break the loop?
>
diff -Nru ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/control ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/control
--- ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/control 2014-04-07 23:06:10.000000000 +0100
+++ ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/control 2014-04-29 19:32:33.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
Priority: optional
Maintainer: akira yamada <akira@debian.org>
Uploaders: Daigo Moriwaki <daigo@debian.org>, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.106), debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, autoconf, m4, quilt (>= 0.40), patch, bison, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.7), libgdbm-dev, libncurses5-dev, libreadline-gplv2-dev, zlib1g-dev, libssl-dev (>= 0.9.6b), file, coreutils (>= 7.5), gcc-4.6
+Build-Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.106), debhelper (>= 5), autotools-dev, autoconf, m4, quilt (>= 0.40), patch, bison, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.7), libgdbm-dev, libncurses5-dev, libreadline-gplv2-dev, zlib1g-dev, libssl-dev (>= 0.9.6b), file, coreutils (>= 7.5), gcc-4.9
Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Homepage: http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/ruby1.8.git
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
Package: ruby1.8-dev
Architecture: any
-Depends: libruby1.8 (= ${binary:Version}), libc6-dev, ${misc:Depends}, gcc-4.6
+Depends: libruby1.8 (= ${binary:Version}), libc6-dev, ${misc:Depends}, gcc-4.9
Recommends: ruby1.8 (= ${binary:Version})
Description: Header files for compiling extension modules for the Ruby 1.8
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
diff -Nru ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/rules ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/rules
--- ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/rules 2014-04-07 23:06:10.000000000 +0100
+++ ruby1.8-1.8.7.358/debian/rules 2014-04-29 19:47:01.000000000 +0100
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_AUTOCONF = YES
-CC = gcc-4.6 # see #674541; same version must be in Depends of ruby1.8-dev
+CC = gcc-4.9 # see #674541; same version must be in Depends of ruby1.8-dev
CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -g
CXXFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -g
ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
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