On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch@redhat.com> wrote:
Dne 15.9.2013 01:21, Dan Allen napsal(a):

While attempting to compile Rubinius on Fedora, I ran into the problem that it could not locate the following header file:

/usr/include/ruby/config.h

As it turns out, this file is located in an arch-specific directory in the Ruby 1.9 devel package:

/usr/include/x86_64/ruby/config.h

as you can see here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=3705765

In the Ruby 2.0 devel package, it's in the expected location, as you can see here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=4216149

This change was introduced in Ruby 2.0 by this commit [1]. I tried to find some universal solution for this issue, but not everybody is happy about it [2], including upstream [3].

Thanks for the clarification!
 


Should this be fixed?

Well, it could break other things, so I don't think it is worth of backporting.

Is it problematic to add a symlink?

Thinking out loud: If a change to the Fedora package is not possible, at the very least I can encourage the Rubinius developers to document the need to create the symlink to complete the compile, or they might decide to look for the file in the arch-specific location if it's not found at /usr/include/ruby/config.h.

-Dan

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