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[PATCH] Specify native search path for all ruby packages

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Message #56 received at 27438 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft <at> uq.edu.au>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>, 27438 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [bug#27438] [PATCH] guix: build: ruby-build-system: Install to
 the vendor directory
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:17:31 +1000

Hi Chris,


On 18/12/17 00:19, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Hey,
>
> It's been a while since I looked at this, but I think it's still
> relevant.
>
> As a reminder, currently the search paths for the Ruby packages in Guix
> are a bit off [1], which makes it difficult to use Ruby gems with
> different versions of Ruby.
>
> Rubygems by default installs gems to directories specific to the version
> of Ruby, and this can be helpful when managing multiple versions of Ruby
> and different sets of gem packages in a shared directory, but with Guix,
> this isn't necessary, as the store can be used.
>
> Ruby/Rubygems supports installing gems in to a vendor directory, which
> is for gems installed by the package system [2]. While Guix blurs the
> lines between the "package system" and the "user", using this vendor
> directory might come in useful.
>
> I've attached an updated patch, and successfully built every Ruby
> package [3], as well as all of the packages that were changed in the
> patch. The only failure was ruby-pg, which failed to build before this
> patch.
>
> Ideally when using specific versions of ruby, any gems that need to be
> build with that version of ruby, would be. While this change doesn't do
> that, it does simplify the search paths of ruby packages and the
> packages for ruby gems.
>
> Reading the bug report again, I think there was nearly consensus about
> merging this, but I wanted to check if anyone has any comments or
> experience with Ruby/Rubygems before merging this?
I think go ahead with this one. It will be useful particularly when we 
update ruby to 2.5.

ben

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