The Ruby package provides a development environment and interpreter for the Ruby scripting language.
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This may take a while to build. Feel free to do something else while this is building.
If you have installed a package that provides a Ruby gem, you must reinstall those packages when upgrading to a new minor version of Ruby.
Install Ruby by running the following command:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-rpath \
--enable-shared \
--without-valgrind \
--without-baseruby \
ac_cv_func_qsort_r=no \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/ruby-4.0.1 &&
make
Now, as the root user:
make install
If you have Ruby-On-Rails applications installed and did an
upgrade of Ruby by installing this package, you might need to run
an update there as the root user:
cd /path/to/web/app bundle update rake
You should restart the webserver which serves the application.
--disable-rpath: This
switch disables embedding /usr/lib as
a library search path into the ruby program. Doing so is not
needed (because /usr/lib is a system
library path) and it may cause the test suite running with the
system libruby instead of the just
built one when Ruby has been installed.
--enable-shared: This
switch enables building the libruby
shared library.
--without-baseruby: This
switch prevents using the system ruby if it is already installed.
The build system will use the newly built version instead.
ac_cv_func_qsort_r=no: This
switch prevents using the qsort_r
function from Glibc. Ruby makes some aggressive optimization
assuming some implementation details of the sorting algorithm, but
the assumption is not true with the Glibc implementation. With this
switch Ruby will use its own sort implementation instead.
--disable-install-doc: This switch
disables building and installing rdoc indexes and C API documents.
--disable-install-rdoc: This switch
disables building and installing rdoc indexes.
--disable-install-capi: This switch
disables building and installing C API documents.