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Investigate using --target-rbconfig when cross compiling gems #884

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joshcooper opened this issue Aug 1, 2024 · 0 comments
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Investigate using --target-rbconfig when cross compiling gems #884

joshcooper opened this issue Aug 1, 2024 · 0 comments
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joshcooper commented Aug 1, 2024

Use Case

In order to cross-compile gems with native extensions, like ffi, the top-level RbConfig constant must be modified to pretend to the target ruby architecture. To accomplish this, we patch the host ruby, however, this is fragile because the rubygems code keeps changing how it invokes the gem command. As a result we've shipped gems with unusable native extensions multiple times. I fixed this is 58560cc but it doesn't support rubygems > 3.5.10

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Ruby's mkmf introduced a --target-rbconfig option to satisfy this use case, see https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20345. Also the gem install and gem update commands recently added support for the --target-rbconfig option. In theory, this means we could eliminate patch-hostruby and instead do gem install --target-rbconfig fake.rb nokogiri. However, you'd need to use the latest ruby/rubygems to take advantage of the option.

@joshcooper joshcooper added the enhancement New feature or request label Aug 1, 2024
@AriaXLi AriaXLi added the accepted Valid issue that we intend to work on when we have the bandwidth label Aug 6, 2024
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