Re: catkin-related changes in orogen

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Sylvain Joyeux <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 01/06/2014 12:59 PM, Ruben Smits wrote:
>
>> I still think there is something wrong with the FindRuby.cmake, if i do
>> find_package(Ruby 1.9.3 REQUIRED) it is not able to find the correct
>> ruby executable if the default ruby is pointing to ruby1.8 (which is the
>> default if installed). I looks for executables named as ruby1.9 and
>> ruby19, but the actual executable is ruby1.9.1 or ruby1.9.3.
>>
> This is definitely wrong ... It should at least bail out telling you it
> got the wrong version.
>

It did actually ...


>
> Now, you should definitely NOT select the ruby version in the cmake code.
> I start using 2.0 on debian, and try 2.1 out.


So the recommended way is to set the RUBY_EXECUTABLE?


>
>
>      The autoproj configuration explicitly passes the ruby full path used
>>     to bootstrap the installation to cmake as the RUBY_EXECUTABLE cmake
>>     variable to make sure we use the right one regardless of everything
>>     else. You should probably do the same.
>>
>>
>> Ok, I'll try that.
>>
>> Maybe I should explain where I want to get at: creating debians for the
>> toolchain only based on debian-installed software. That's why I don't
>> want to depend on gems or other manual changes on the system.
>>
>
> The point of making gems (which we already did for you) is that there
> *are* tools to convert gems to <insert binary package format here>, as e.g.
> gem2deb.
>
>
I'll look into this workflow asap.


> It is therefore, as always, better to go for the standard (for cmake,
> having a proper install target, for ruby, package as gems)... Other people
> usually have done the rest of the work for you.
>
> Which "manual changes" are you talking about here ?


I was talking about needing to use update-alternatives to set point ruby to
the correct version, but I assume using the RUBY_EXECUTABLE cmake variable
would solve this.


Ruben

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