[csw-maintainers] ruby help

[Ben Walton]

Hi All,

I set out to update Ruby to 1.8.7p72 shortly after the CERT advisories
in the late summer.  I have an updated GAR (not v2, yet) description
that builds and packages the software, but I hit a speedbump with the
documentation package.  It seems that rdoc (as run by the install
portion of the process*) is generating different results on sparc than
it does on i386 (happens on both sol8 and sol10).

I fired off a request for help to the ruby-core list, but got only a
small request for more clarification.  After providing this, I got no
more info back... So, while the software is package-able, it currently
requires either a) dropping a few files in the rubydoc package or b)
architecture-specific rubydoc packages.  Obviously both of these
options stink!

Is anyone out there able and willing to take a look at this and see if
I'm doing something silly or whether there is indeed something wrong
with the package under solaris?

Incidentally, I did discover the following tidbit that, I suspect,
puts solaris in the less than cared about realm as far as the ruby
devs are typically concerned:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/18257

Thanks
-Ben

* The GAR description builds this slightly differently than the
  ./configure; make; make install routine would, but doing it the
  'stock' way sees the same results.
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