[bitbake-devel] Question on including ruby 1.9.3 in embedded image

[Ming Chan (chanm)]

Hi Richard, 

We just resolved these issues.

Thanks,

--Ming 

On 6/6/13 4:13 AM, "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
wrote:

>On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 18:46 +0000, Ming Chan (chanm) wrote:
>> We are trying to include ruby-1.9.3 by using the recipe in
>> the 
>>meta-openembedded/meta-ruby(git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded)
>>, Issues seen during the bitbake run:
>>      1. While package ruby-native-1.9.3-p194-r1.0, task do_compile
>>         failed with "undefined symbol: rb_encdb_declare", the work
>>         around this issue is to use --disable-rdoc
>>      2. While package ruby-1.9.3-p194-r1.0, task do_compile failed
>>         with the following:
>>                 template/Doxyfile.tmpl:22: uninitialized constant
>>                 RUBY_REVISION (NameError).  The work around is to use
>>                 0 instead of RUBY_REVISION.
>>               * executable host ruby is required.  The work around is
>>                 to use --with-baseruby option and provide baseruby
>>                 from build machine.
>>               * ext/etc/extconf.rb:8: undefined method `escape' for
>>                 Shellwords.  This issue is caused by the version of
>>                 executable host ruby is to old.  This issue
>>                 disappeared after using ruby-1.8.7 on the build
>>                 machine.
>>               * The current issue is "../.././lib/erb.rb:586:in
>>                 `compile': undefined method `encoding' for
>>                 #<String:0x2a9560fee0> (NoMethodError)"
>> Does it make sense for the work around described?  Any requirement
>> (i.e. The version of gcc) is needed to use  the recipe in
>> the meta-openembedded/meta-ruby?
>> 
>This mailing list is about bitbake itself, not about metadata and build
>problems. See the README in the meta-opembedded layer for details on
>where to take questions (its the openenembedded-devel mailing list in
>this case).
>
>FWIW it is a bug that you have to work around these issues however the
>quality of recipes in meta-openembedded is variable.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Richard
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