Bug #20687: Does tarball require baseruby?

• Status: Open
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

From https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/issues/2435

I'm wondering why tarball use system ruby with above environment. In my understanding, tarball don't need baseruby.

Is it intentional?

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

In that case, the system ruby is used to re-check encoding sources and update encdb.h if needed.
Encodings under enc directory will be added to encdb.h automatically by template/encdb.h.tmpl file.
We assume that the cost to re-check using ruby is much less than the cost for rebuild all encodings, or the cost to re-check using other than ruby.

Another assumption is that the system ruby provides full of bundled libraries, ArchLinux is not the case apparently.
I'll add a check that the system ruby matches our assumption.

[ZimbiX (Brendan Weibrecht)]

Thanks for looking into this, @hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) and @nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)! ❤️

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|6ab591f80aa19d63ecd1e1df3c09c391efb318a6.

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[Bug #20687] Check if base ruby provides necessary libraries

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote in #note-1:

In that case, the system ruby is used to re-check encoding sources and update encdb.h if needed.

Why miniruby is not used for that purpose?

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Closed to Open