Bugzilla Bug 111154

Hi,

While trying to install Ruby on Rails to work with an MS SQL Server database
according to the instruction on the Ruby on Rails wiki (see
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/HowtoConnectToMicrosoftSQLServerFromRailsOnLinux)
I found that there was no ebuild for Ruby ODBC (http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/)

Based on the Ruby-DBI ebuild I created an ebuild for this package. There is a
dependency with unixODBC and ofcourse Ruby.

I was able to get this ebuild working on a clean 2005.1 install with Ruby 1.8.3
and unixODBC-2.2.11-r1

This is my first attempt at creating an ebuild, so please check if it is correct.

Hein

Created an attachment (id=71875) [details]
ruby-odbc-0.996.ebuild

First Version of the ruby-odbc-0.996.ebuild

- the ebuild header is invalid

- the ebuild header is invalid¹
- inheriting eutils is not necessary
- ruby-odbc-${PV} == ${P}
- GPL is not a valid license, please have a look at /usr/portage/licenses
- remove S=${WORKDIR}/ruby-odbc-${PV}
- src_unpack() is superfluous
- in src_compile() call emake instead make


[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=3

Created an attachment (id=71922) [details]
ruby-odbc-0.966-r1.ebuild

New ebuild based on recommendations of Carsten Lohrke

Created an attachment (id=71925) [details]
Changelog for ruby-odbc

Changelog for this ebuild

(In reply to comment #2)
> - the ebuild header is invalid

(In reply to comment #2)
> - the ebuild header is invalid¹
Changed
> - inheriting eutils is not necessary
Removed
> - ruby-odbc-${PV} == ${P}
Changed the SRC_URI line
> - GPL is not a valid license, please have a look at /usr/portage/licenses
Change licence to GPL-2 but this program is dual licenced. Should I provide the
other licence as a new licence? or how do I indicate that this package is dual
licenced?
> - remove S=${WORKDIR}/ruby-odbc-${PV}
done
> - src_unpack() is superfluous
remove
> - in src_compile() call emake instead make
changed

Thanks for the feedback. Shoud I als change the make command in the src_install
section to emake?

This software can also be configured with UTF-8 support (see
http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/README) but than the scr_compile and
src_install commands are different? how do I implement that?

(In reply to comment #5)
> Change licence to GPL-2 but this program is dual licenced. Should I provide the
> other licence as a new licence? or how do I indicate that this package is dual
> licenced?

Yes. LICENSE="|| ( GPL-2 <foo> )" is the correct expression.

> Shoud I als change the make command in the src_install section to emake?

No.
 
> This software can also be configured with UTF-8 support (see
> http://www.ch-werner.de/rubyodbc/README) but than the scr_compile and
> src_install commands are different? how do I implement that?

Usually you add something alike

IUSE="unicode"

and  

local myconf=""
use unicode && myconf="utf8"


I just don't know how ruby handles different encodings and if using the existing
global unicode use flag may be misleading.

Created an attachment (id=89677) [details]
ruby-odbc.ebuold

A fixed version, added ruby.eclass inheritance, changed the dependancies a
little and some tweaks. Works on amd64, so I keyworded it ~amd64.

Created an attachment (id=98822) [details]
ruby-odbc-0.9993.ebuild

Ebuild for latest version of ruby-dbi. When I let the ebuild use
ruby_src_compile the installed .so wouldn't work.

(In reply to comment #8)
> Created an attachment (id=98822) [edit] [details]
> ruby-odbc-0.9993.ebuild
> 
> Ebuild for latest version of ruby-dbi. When I let the ebuild use
> ruby_src_compile the installed .so wouldn't work.
> 

Richard, did you really test it on all ~x86 ~amd64 ~ia64 ~ppc ~sparc?

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