Re: Build failure for ruby18-base-18.6.11 on OS X

["Joe Van Dyk" <joe%pinkpucker.net@localhost>]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
<gerardo.santana%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Joe Van Dyk <joe%pinkpucker.net@localhost> 
> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
>  >  <gerardo.santana%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>  >  > May I ask why would you want a pkgsrc build of Ruby when Ruby is a
>  >  >  first class citizen in Mac OS X?
>  >  >
>  >  >  mac:~ santana$ ruby -v
>  >  >  ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [universal-darwin9.0]
>  >  >  mac:~ santana$
>  >
>  >  Because I want to be able to manage all software via pkgsrc.  I need
>  >  to work on OS X, solaris, and linux machines.  It would be nice for me
>  >  to have a consistent package manager across all of them.
>  >
>  >  Joe
>  >
>
>  Indeed. I do exactly the same, for Solaris and Mac OS X. Ruby is in my
>  exception list though.
>
>  Apple is serious about Ruby support, so, why bother building Ruby with
>  pkgsrc, or that's why I thought, and that's my recommendation.
>
>  About the error you're getting, running gdb on the core dump will be
>  helpful to see where miniruby is crashing

If I have four OS X machines, I'd like a way to keep all the Ruby
versions in sync.  If I have to customize Ruby, I'd like to do that
once, and not have to build it on all the machines.  And same goes for
all the associated ruby software (mongrel, gems, etc).

Joe