Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to
process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible.
Features of Ruby are shown below.
+ Simple Syntax
+ *Normal* Object-Oriented features(ex. class, method calls)
+ *Advanced* Object-Oriented features(ex. Mix-in, Singleton-method)
+ Operator Overloading
+ Exception Handling
+ Iterators and Closures
+ Garbage Collection
+ Dynamic Loading of Object files(on some architecture)
+ Highly Portable(works on many UNIX machines, and on DOS,
Windows, Mac, BeOS etc.)
Author: Matsumoto "matz" Yukihiro <matz@zetabits.com>
WWW: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
Purge the last vestiges of the (really) old autotools world order.
Since all these items were commented out, this is a null-op commit.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
bsd.ruby.mk:
- Change LOCALBASE with _RUBY_BASE
- Set _RUBY_BASE=PREFIX if defined _RUBY_PORT_TEST
_RUBY_BASE=LOCALBASE otherwise for easy ports testing.
lang/ruby18:
- Update to 1.8.3
Grant maintainership to submitter.
While I'm here:
- Add _RUBY_PORT_TEST=yes to lang/ruby16 port too.
(lang/ruby1[68] must set it for right install).
PR: ports/87332
Submitted by: Alexander Novitsky
The slippery pthread support for systems prior to 502102 has been
dropped and the lang/ruby16_r and lang/ruby18_r ports have been
removed, since no one seems to appreciate the partially working
solution.
Good news is that the pthread support of lang/ruby18 is now enabled by
default for newer systems, which means the ruby interpreter is linked
with libpthread. This will allow threaded extension libraries to run
and work properly on those systems.
The --march=cputype flag is disabled because it gets ruby to
malfunction and fail to build. I don't know if the problem is in
libpthread or in gcc.
(It really makes me wonder if they had actually tested before asking
me to do this somewhat risky change ;-)
Change the default version of ruby to 1.8 for i386 as well, finally.
Always put a version suffix to the ruby name (no matter if ruby is the
default version) to avoid mess in future.
[Notes for i386 users]
If you are a ruby developer and still want to stick with ruby 1.6 as
default, please add RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.6 to /etc/make.conf.
If you are a ruby developer and want to keep ruby 1.6 as default,
please add RUBY_DEFAULT_VER=1.6 to /etc/make.conf. Otherwise, please
run the following series of commands to migrate to ruby 1.8:
1) Reinstall portupgrade manually (and ruby 1.8 will be installed)
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