[9fans] ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[9fans] ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[prem]

Hi All,
I have seen some posts asking if there is ruby port for plan9. Here is
one (apologies if this is already posted)

------------------
fetching and building
------------------
% hget http://www1.plala.or.jp/anraku/ruby-1.8.1-plan9.tar.gz | gnuzip
| tar x
% cd ruby-1.8.1-plan9
% ape/psh
# CFLAGS='-D_BSD_EXTENSION -D_LIMITS_EXTENSION' \
   ./configure --prefix=$home --bindir=$home/bin/$objtype --libdir=
$home/lib --build=i386
# make
# make install
# exit
% ruby -v
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-none]

Re: [9fans] ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[ron minnich]

On Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM, prem <prem.mallappa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have seen some posts asking if there is ruby port for plan9. Here is
> one (apologies if this is already posted)

Hi, do you think the Ruby folks will take your mods back into
mainline? That would be really neat if so.

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Christopher Nielsen]

1.8.1 is a little old (2003). The current stable version is 1.8.6p111,
so my guess is they probably won't accept a patch that isn't against a
current version.

Just my $0.02

On Jan 7, 2008 8:57 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM, prem <prem.mallappa@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I have seen some posts asking if there is ruby port for plan9. Here is
> > one (apologies if this is already posted)
>
> Hi, do you think the Ruby folks will take your mods back into
> mainline? That would be really neat if so.
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>



-- 
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

[9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[prem]

First of all, I did not port this, the Japanese Plan9 user group had
done the port (thanks to the original porter). I made some more module
to get compiled in that (but my changes are not visible in the above
tgz)
I am trying to port the changes to 1.8.6, but gave up after a while (I
though it was not a quick hack)
I will take it back up whenever I find little time

/Prem

> On Jan 7, 11:57 pm, rminn...@gmail.com (ron minnich) wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM, prem <prem.malla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I have seen some posts asking if there is ruby port for plan9. Here is
> > one (apologies if this is already posted)
>
> Hi, do you think the Ruby folks will take your mods back into
> mainline? That would be really neat if so.
>
> thanks
>
> ron

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Pietro Gagliardi]

Well, the Japanese Plan 9 group may not stop. I'm working on 1.9.0,  
and the only thing I had to change so far was the configure file. It  
invoked ls with the -i option (print inodes), which Plan 9 does not  
have.

On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:40 AM, prem wrote:

> First of all, I did not port this, the Japanese Plan9 user group had
> done the port (thanks to the original porter). I made some more module
> to get compiled in that (but my changes are not visible in the above
> tgz)
> I am trying to port the changes to 1.8.6, but gave up after a while (I
> though it was not a quick hack)
> I will take it back up whenever I find little time
>
> /Prem
>
>> On Jan 7, 11:57 pm, rminn...@gmail.com (ron minnich) wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM, prem <prem.malla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I have seen some posts asking if there is ruby port for plan9.  
>>> Here is
>>> one (apologies if this is already posted)
>>
>> Hi, do you think the Ruby folks will take your mods back into
>> mainline? That would be really neat if so.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> ron

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Pietro Gagliardi]

Update #2 - Plan 9 uses grep, not egrep, so whole check is skipped.  
If I don't need to change any of the source files, I'll just post the  
configure in my contrib directory (/n/sources/contrib/pietro).

On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote:

> Well, the Japanese Plan 9 group may not stop. I'm working on 1.9.0,  
> and the only thing I had to change so far was the configure file.  
> It invoked ls with the -i option (print inodes), which Plan 9 does  
> not have.
>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:40 AM, prem wrote:
>
>> First of all, I did not port this, the Japanese Plan9 user group had
>> done the port (thanks to the original porter). I made some more  
>> module
>> to get compiled in that (but my changes are not visible in the above
>> tgz)
>> I am trying to port the changes to 1.8.6, but gave up after a  
>> while (I
>> though it was not a quick hack)
>> I will take it back up whenever I find little time
>>
>> /Prem
>>
>>> On Jan 7, 11:57 pm, rminn...@gmail.com (ron minnich) wrote:
>>> On Jan 7, 2008 2:00 AM, prem <prem.malla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> I have seen some posts asking if there is ruby port for plan9.  
>>>> Here is
>>>> one (apologies if this is already posted)
>>>
>>> Hi, do you think the Ruby folks will take your mods back into
>>> mainline? That would be really neat if so.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> ron
>

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Federico G. Benavento]

I was bored, so I tried...

the ready to use ruby doesn't have either a mkfile or a Makefile, so
1) I downloaded the latest ruby realease run /n/sources/contrib/fgb/rc/config
and sent the output to rc; I got my config.h and Makefile, then % echo make | ape/psh
but it didn't end there, ruby building process is broken it expects to find files in the current
dir which they aren't.
thinking that this might had been solved in the cvs I 
2) downloaded the latest stable cvs snapshot, same problem, this time I just edited
the Makefile by hand, the thing is that to make the extensions a miniruby creates
the other Makefile's, which end up broken too!
so, I fixed every Makefile by haand and started to compile it

what were the changes?
1) APE doesn't have fchown()
2) lot's of casts (char *) != (unsigned char *)
3) the bignum extension divides by 0, it has something like "One()/Zero()"!

here the fn() that initializes the extensions, just for you to know
which ones are in my ruby

void Init_ext _((void))
{
    init(Init_bigdecimal, "bigdecimal.so");
    init(Init_curses, "curses.so");
    init(Init_digest, "digest.so");
    init(Init_bubblebabble, "digest/bubblebabble.so");
    init(Init_md5, "digest/md5.so");
    init(Init_rmd160, "digest/rmd160.so");
    init(Init_sha1, "digest/sha1.so");
    init(Init_sha2, "digest/sha2.so");
    init(Init_enumerator, "enumerator.so");
    init(Init_etc, "etc.so");
    init(Init_fcntl, "fcntl.so");
    init(Init_wait, "io/wait.so");
    init(Init_nkf, "nkf.so");
    init(Init_openssl, "openssl.so");
    init(Init_pty, "pty.so");
    init(Init_cparse, "racc/cparse.so");
    init(Init_sdbm, "sdbm.so");
    init(Init_stringio, "stringio.so");
    init(Init_strscan, "strscan.so");
    init(Init_syck, "syck.so");
    init(Init_thread, "thread.so");
    init(Init_zlib, "zlib.so");
}

I'll clean it up, create some nice mkfiles and put it in my contrib

oh, btw, I won't send a diff to the author saying "dude, char * isn't the same
as unsigned char *!"

Federico G. Benavento

PS: yes, I know it's confusing

---
/bin/fortune:
The problem is not getting ksh to execute any particular command, the problem is recognizing that there might be a problem.

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[ron minnich]

On Jan 10, 2008 1:11 AM, Federico G. Benavento <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:

> oh, btw, I won't send a diff to the author saying "dude, char * isn't the same
> as unsigned char *!"

I will if you want me to. Maybe he'll ask me to fix his laptop.

ron

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Pietro Gagliardi]

Does anyone have any details on POSIX threads in APE? I looked in  
Trickey's paper but it doesn't say much. Without it, Ruby does not  
compile (the new VM needs it).

On Jan 10, 2008, at 2:52 PM, ron minnich wrote:

>  Maybe he'll ask me to fix his laptop.

Okay, but first you'll need a ticket to Japan. Can you read the  
language, and any questions?

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[ron minnich]

On Jan 10, 2008 12:06 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:

> Okay, but first you'll need a ticket to Japan. Can you read the
> language, and any questions?

I'm a US citizen. For these cases, we just talk louder.

ron

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Jack Johnson]

On Jan 10, 2008 11:15 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 12:06 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
> > Okay, but first you'll need a ticket to Japan. Can you read the
> > language, and any questions?
>
> I'm a US citizen. For these cases, we just talk louder.

English to Louder English = Universal Translator

-Jack

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Jan 10, 2008 4:02 PM, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
> English to Louder English = Universal Translator

So *that's* why all those emails from Mbambmwne Mgumgntu are in ALL
CAPS; I was wondering. ;)

--Joel

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Russ Cox]

> Does anyone have any details on POSIX threads in APE? I looked in  
> Trickey's paper but it doesn't say much. Without it, Ruby does not  
> compile (the new VM needs it).

There is no support for POSIX threads in APE.

Russ

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Federico G. Benavento]

> I will if you want me to. Maybe he'll ask me to fix his laptop.

ok, I can't get make install to work well, + I had to edit some
.rb files, since the whole building/installation process uses ruby itself.
I tried building it with a standard /sys/include/ape, since I have lot's
of libs there (openssl, zlib, curses, etc) and it worked, if you have those
it will use them.

I can edit rbconfig.rb by hand, but it's deleted when you do "make clean",
so if anyone cares:
/n/sources/contrib/fgb/tar/ruby.tgz can be diffed against 
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz

enjoy!

Federico G. Benavento

---
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If I had to choose between System V and 4.2, I'd resign. - Peter Honeyman

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Pietro Gagliardi]

What version of Ruby are you building? I'm working on 1.9.0.

On Jan 10, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote:

>> I will if you want me to. Maybe he'll ask me to fix his laptop.
>
> ok, I can't get make install to work well, + I had to edit some
> .rb files, since the whole building/installation process uses ruby  
> itself.
> I tried building it with a standard /sys/include/ape, since I have  
> lot's
> of libs there (openssl, zlib, curses, etc) and it worked, if you  
> have those
> it will use them.
>
> I can edit rbconfig.rb by hand, but it's deleted when you do "make  
> clean",
> so if anyone cares:
> /n/sources/contrib/fgb/tar/ruby.tgz can be diffed against
> ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz
>
> enjoy!
>
> Federico G. Benavento
>
> ---
> /bin/fortune:
> If I had to choose between System V and 4.2, I'd resign. - Peter  
> Honeyman
>

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Federico G. Benavento]

> What version of Ruby are you building? I'm working on 1.9.0.

>> /n/sources/contrib/fgb/tar/ruby.tgz can be diffed against
>> ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz

Re: [9fans] Re: ruby port 1.8.1 ready to use

[Pietro Gagliardi]

You're working with 1.8.6, which is the latest stable. Unfortunately,  
1.9.0, the latest version, is what I am using, and it needs some sort  
of thread library. Are there any special requirements for linking the  
Plan 9 libraries into APE so I can do so myself?

On Jan 10, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Federico G. Benavento wrote:

>> What version of Ruby are you building? I'm working on 1.9.0.
>
>>> /n/sources/contrib/fgb/tar/ruby.tgz can be diffed against
>>> ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/stable-snapshot.tar.gz
>