gem environment

Posted on August 20, 2009 by dengadmin

/home/ror/test# gem environment
RubyGems Environment:
– RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
– RUBY VERSION: 1.9.1 (2009-07-16 patchlevel 243) [sparc-solaris2.11]
– INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/bin/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
– RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/bin/ruby
– EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin/bin
– RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
– ruby
– sparc-solaris-2.11
– GEM PATHS:
– /usr/bin/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1
– /root/.gem/ruby/1.9.1
– GEM CONFIGURATION:
– :update_sources => true
– :verbose => true
– :benchmark => false
– :backtrace => false
– :bulk_threshold => 1000
– REMOTE SOURCES:
– http://gems.rubyforge.org/

GNU libiconv library: Solaris 10 does not meet what ruby/rails need

Posted on August 20, 2009 by dengadmin

Get a copy from sunfreeware.com. I used version 1.11. Gunzip/tar xvf the archive and then cd to the newly created directory.

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

This should be done before you compile ruby. If not, you'll have problem down the road.

Compile Ruby on Solaris 10

Posted on August 20, 2009 by dengadmin

I downloaded ruby-1.9.1-p243 and gunzip/tar’ed it. When doing

./configure -prefix=/usr/bin -enable-pthread; make; make install

(BTW, I should have used /usr as bin dir is implied in the build)

[note: Second time when I did it, I ran the following command to compile ruby in Solaris 10:
./configure --enable-pthread --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
make
make install

--enable-pthread is not needed if your tck/tl did not compile with this option.
]

It spits error like “no output file specified”. Looking into the C codesm under lib, I chnaged several lines in mkmf.rb, which solved the problem. The chnaged line as reflected in diff:

/home/ror/ruby-1.9.1-p243# diff lib/mkmf.rb lib/mkmf.rb.orig
1918,1919c1918,1919
< COMPILE_C = config_string(‘COMPILE_C’) || ‘$(CC) $(INCFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(COUTFLAG) $@ -c $<‘
< COMPILE_CXX = config_string(‘COMPILE_CXX’) || ‘$(CXX) $(INCFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(COUTFLAG) $@ -c $<‘
—
> COMPILE_C = config_string(‘COMPILE_C’) || ‘$(CC) $(INCFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(COUTFLAG)$@ -c $<‘
> COMPILE_CXX = config_string(‘COMPILE_CXX’) || ‘$(CXX) $(INCFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(COUTFLAG)$@ -c $<‘
1921c1921
< “$(CC) #{OUTFLAG} conftest $(INCFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) ” \
—
> “$(CC) #{OUTFLAG}conftest $(INCFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) ” \

/home/ror/ruby-1.9.1-p243# uname -a
SunOS zone100-246 5.11 snv_79a sun4v sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200

Did a sym link to make ruby in PATH again:

ln -s bin/ruby ruby

Now I have the newest ruby on Solaris!

:/home/ror/ruby-1.9.1-p243# /usr/bin/bin/ruby -v
ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [sparc-solaris2.11]