[MacRuby-devel] Fwd: Installing MacRuby HEAD with RVM

Eric Christopherson echristopherson at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 23:28:35 PDT 2011 

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Mark Rada <mrada at marketcircle.com> wrote:
> I don't actually use rvm to build HEAD, since I have my llvm setup
> differently and because I have other changes to MacRuby; however, I do use
> HEAD with rvm.
> The trick is that rvm sets up macruby a little differently, and that
> macruby-nightly and macruby-head would be installed to the same place
> anyways.
> Steps:
> 1. install macruby-nightly using rvm so that rvm sets up paths, directories,
> symlinks, etc. that rvm wants for gemsets and like
> 2. build macruby HEAD without rvm and then install it

Do you mean install it in the usual place (outside ~/.rvm)? And the
things set up in step 1 somehow magically find it?

> 3. sacrifice a goat under the full moon

:P

> 4. tell rvm to use macruby-nightly, except that it will really be symlinked
> to macruby-head


> Note that you will need to re-install macruby-nightly through rvm each time
> the macruby version number gets bumped to fix the symlinks again. Also, step
> 3 is optional. Other than that, it should be smooth sailing.
>
> Mark Rada
> mrada at marketcircle.com
>
>
>
> On 2011-06-29, at 2:44 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
> I don't use rvm for MacRuby but Mark does, maybe he can help ;)
> - Matt
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Eric Christopherson
> <echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [I posted this question to the RVM group a few days ago, but haven't
>> heard back. I know MacRuby users don't tend to use it with RVM, but
>> I'd like to make this work, since I have had trouble running "system"
>> MacRuby commands like macgem -- they pick up environment variables set
>> by RVM and end up doing things like installing/looking for gems in the
>> wrong places.]
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Eric Christopherson <echristopherson at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:04 AM
>> Subject: Installing MacRuby HEAD
>> To: rubyversionmanager at googlegroups.com
>>
>>
>> I'm new to this group (hi!). Yesterday I built MacRuby from HEAD,
>> outside of RVM, and it worked fine. There was a small complication in
>> that I have a 32-bit Mac, so I built it with rake archs=i386.
>>
>> Now I'm trying to do the same from within RVM. The first complication
>> was that I had 'export rvm_make_flags="-j 3"' in my ~/.rvmrc. When
>> building MacRuby, rake picks up rvm_make_flags, which causes it to
>> error out because it doesn't recognize -j. So I commented that line
>> out of .rvmrc.
>>
>> Next, I found that whatever I tried, RVM would not call rake with
>> archs=i386, so it was targeting x86_64. I fixed this by editing
>> ~/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby, changing
>> 'rvm_ruby_make="rake"' to 'rvm_ruby_make="rake jobs=3 archs=i386"'.
>>
>> This seemed to build MacRuby just fine, but failed to install RubyGems
>> afterward. Here is the output I get from rvm install macruby-head:
>> <shell transcript>
>> $ rvm install macruby-head
>> Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head,
>> this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
>>
>> macruby-head - #fetching
>> HEAD is now at e994638 add Pointer#to_object which returns the pointer
>> address as a true object, to use only in certain circumstances
>> From https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby
>>  * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
>> Already up-to-date.
>> Already on 'master'
>> Copying from repo to src path...
>> macruby-head - #compiling
>> macruby-head - #installing
>> Password:
>> Removing old Rubygems files...
>> Installing rubygems dedicated to macruby-head...
>> Installing rubygems for /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ruby
>> ERROR: Error running
>>
>> 'GEM_PATH="/Users/eric/.rvm/gems/macruby-head:/Users/eric/.rvm/gems/macruby-head at global:/Users/eric/.rvm/gems/macruby-head:/Users/eric/.rvm/gems/macruby-head at global"
>> GEM_HOME="/Users/eric/.rvm/gems/macruby-head"
>> "/Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ruby"
>> "/Users/eric/.rvm/src/rubygems-1.6.2/setup.rb"', please read
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/log/macruby-head/rubygems.install.log
>> WARN: Installation of rubygems did not complete successfully.
>> ln: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/lib/ruby/gems/: No such file
>> or directory
>> ERROR: Error running 'chmod +x
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/*', please read
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/log/macruby-head/chmod.bin.log
>> macruby-head - adjusting #shebangs for (gem irb erb ri rdoc testrb rake).
>> cp: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/gem: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/gem: No such file or
>> directory
>> cp: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/irb: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/irb: No such file or
>> directory
>> cp: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ri: No such file or directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ri: No such file or
>> directory
>> cp: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rdoc: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rdoc: No such file or
>> directory
>> cp: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rake: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rake: No such file or
>> directory
>> macruby-head - #importing default gemsets (/Users/eric/.rvm/gemsets/)
>> Install of macruby-head - #complete
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/erb: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/erb: No such file or
>> directory
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/gem: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/gem: No such file or
>> directory
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/irb: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/irb: No such file or
>> directory
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rake: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rake: No such file or
>> directory
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rdoc: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/rdoc: No such file or
>> directory
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ri: No such file or directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ri: No such file or
>> directory
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ruby: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/ruby: No such file or
>> directory
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/scripts/functions/manage/macruby: line 110:
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/testrb: No such file or
>> directory
>> chmod: /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/bin/testrb: No such file
>> or directory
>> $ rvm list
>>
>> rvm rubies
>>
>>   jruby-1.6.2 [ darwin-i386-java ]
>>   ruby-1.8.7-p334 [ i386 ]
>> => ruby-1.9.2-p180 [ i386 ]
>>
>> $ ll -R /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head
>> total 0
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 eric  staff  102 Jun 26 13:30 lib/
>>
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/lib:
>> total 0
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 eric  staff  68 Jun 26 13:30 ruby/
>>
>> /Users/eric/.rvm/rubies/macruby-head/lib/ruby:
>> </shell transcript>
>>
>> I've taken all my macruby-head logs and put them at
>> <https://github.com/echristopherson/macruby-head>.
>>
>> So, I'd like to know:
>> 1. What I need to do to get macruby-head installed; and
>> 2. Whether it would be possible for RVM to be modified to allow .rvmrc
>> to specify build settings separately for different implementations, so
>> that e.g. it doesn't try to pass rvm_make_flags to rake as if it's
>> make. It doesn't seem right to have to modify .rvmrc each time you
>> compile something.
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