[oe] [rbevan at restdeveloper.com: meta-ruby / compiling gems on the target machine]

[Akuster808]

Richard,

Thanks for the fix. I will take a look into later when time permits ( on holiday).

armin



> On Apr 21, 2015, at 04:00, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not a ruby expert forwarding to ML where it belongs.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Richard Bevan <rbevan at restdeveloper.com> -----
> 
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:06:35 +0100
> Subject: meta-ruby / compiling gems on the target machine
> From: Richard Bevan <rbevan at restdeveloper.com>
> To: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
> 
> Hello Martin,
> 
> Sorry for the direct email.
> 
> Thanks for your work on meta-ruby. I have found a small problem and also
> have a suggestion but don't know how to fix it in the .bb file.
> 
> The --sysroot=/ is set to the host path, when using ruby on a target
> machine.
> 
> This only becomes a problem with compiling native support using gems.
> 
> eg.....
> 
> gem install thin
> 
> The makefile will fail when run on the target machine. I have been running
> the below command to sort the --sysroot out on my target machine before
> running gem install.
> 
> /bin/sed -i "s/sysroot=[0-9a-z\/\-]*/sysroot=\//g"
> /usr/lib/ruby/*/*/rbconfig.rb
> 
> The above replaces --sysroot=/path/on/my/host/machine/ to --sysroot=/ in
> the rbconfig.rb file.
> 
> Then gem install with native supports works after running the above.
> 
> Can we add this into the .bb file?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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