[Fedora-packaging] Stupid question

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
>
> I've taken over the ruby package, which basically is the first
> core-component piece of software on my relatively small list of packages.
>
> Attached is a patch that was in ruby-1.8.6, and that I rebased to
> ruby-1.8.7. Since it's a really simple patch, I wonder why it's not
> upstream.
>
> I'm not sure what this fixes, in that ruby will build without the patch as
> well. I've searched through the logs to see if there's some kind of warning
> related to socket.c, but there is none from what I can tell.
>
> I'd love to learn what this patch does and then try and get upstream to
> accept it (so that I have less work to do). Can someone on this list help me
> with this?

For a while back in February of '08 was some breakage in glibc where
NI_MAXHOST wasn't defined anymore (at least not under the usual
circumstances that Fedora programs are/were compiled), thus breaking
the build of many different packages, Ruby included.  From the looks
of that patch the Ruby developers anticipated NI_MAXHOST being
undefined, but flubbed the fixup.  Certainly seems like the patch
should be upstream to me...

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Jeff Ollie

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