Bug 138208 – patch for ruby 1.8.4 series to have conditional gdbm support by USE flag

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description MT 2006-06-27 07:21:55 UTC]

atthaced there are patches for the dev-lang/ruby-1.8.4* series (almost arch and ~arch) to let compile ruby with or without gbdm support using "gdbm" USE flag.

p.s.: i know that the 1.8.5 serie have an automatic gdbm detection, so my patches are valid only for 1.8.4 series.

[Comment 1 MT 2006-06-27 07:22:54 UTC]

Created attachment 90277 [details, diff]
dev-lang/ruby-1.8.4-r1

[Comment 2 MT 2006-06-27 07:23:23 UTC]

Created attachment 90278 [details, diff]
dev-lang/ruby-1.8.4.20060529

[Comment 3 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy (RETIRED) 2006-12-18 05:43:46 UTC]

Urm.. are you sure? I grepped for "gdbm" from configure.in in ruby-1.8.5-p2 and found nothing. This bug may relate to bug #128837

[Comment 4 MT 2006-12-19 03:51:14 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Urm.. are you sure? I grepped for "gdbm" from configure.in in ruby-1.8.5-p2 and
> found nothing. This bug may relate to bug #128837
> 

as i have wrote in the previous comment, my patches was valid only for 1.8.4 version, *NOT FOR* 1.8.5 where there is not a configure option for gdbm.

p.s.: my bugreport is 6 months old, is totaly useless to discuss this problem now that 1.8.5 serie is into the stable portage branch. however, thinking about bug #128837, yes, my bugreport is more related to #128837 since the ruby configure process is know to be borked because enable conditionaly a lot of extensions (curses,gdbm,tk). the actual configure process can be ok for normal usage, but it's a pita for embedded environments where peoples *probably* do not want curses,gdbm,tk,tcl as dependencies. a configure patch that made extensions as options can be a very good solution (IMHO).