# Solaris 9 SPARC packages for RubyGems? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 13, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solaris-9-sparc-packages-for-rubygems/63275 "2006-06-13T19:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John-Mason_PSShack)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solaris-9-sparc-packages-for-rubygems/63275/1 "2006-06-13T19:17:54Z")
Anyone out there ever build a Solaris 9 SPARC package for RubyGems? I’d be grateful if you’d be willing to share it or a spec file. BTW, it looks to me like the [http://sunfreeware.com](http://sunfreeware.com) package for Ruby 1.8.4 is incompatible with their openssl package. The openssl package installs into /usr/local/ssl but Ruby is looking for it in a standard location so: $ ruby -e “require ‘md5’” /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9/digest/md5.so: ld.so.1: ruby: fatal: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: open failed: No such file or directory - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9/digest/md5.so (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/md5.rb:6 from -e:1 $ ldd /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.9/digest/md5.so libcrypto.so.0.9.8 =\> (file not found) libdl.so.1 =\> /usr/lib/libdl.so.1 libcrypt\_i.so.1 =\> /usr/lib/libcrypt\_i.so.1 libm.so.1 =\> /usr/lib/libm.so.1 libc.so.1 =\> /usr/lib/libc.so.1 libgen.so.1 =\> /usr/lib/libgen.so.1 /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/lib/libc\_psr.so.1 Has anyone modified the packages or built their own to overcome this? As a Linux user unfamiliar with Solaris and its package manager, I find that I am knocking my head against the wall quite a bit trying to get Ruby into production on Solaris… Too many machines to build from source everywhere… Thanks, – John-Mason Shackelford Software Developer Pearson Educational Measurement 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52245 ph. 319-354-9200x6214 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://pearsonedmeasurement.com](http://pearsonedmeasurement.com) ---
**Author:** ![John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John-Mason_PSShack)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solaris-9-sparc-packages-for-rubygems/63275/2 "2006-06-13T19:50:15Z")
John-Mason P. Shackelford wrote: > Anyone out there ever build a Solaris 9 SPARC package for RubyGems? > I’d be grateful if you’d be willing to share it or a spec file. > > BTW, it looks to me like the [http://sunfreeware.com](http://sunfreeware.com) package for Ruby > 1.8.4 is incompatible with their openssl package. The openssl package > installs into /usr/local/ssl but Ruby is looking for it in a standard > location so: Is it possible you installed openssl _after_ you built Ruby? I haven’t had a problem with it myself. Also, I prefer [blastwave.org](http://blastwave.org) to sunfreeware since pkg-get is such a nice little command line app. Keep in mind, though, that they build their packages with Sun’s compiler (which is now free, I think). Blastwave does have a Ruby package, but I think it’s outdated. Regards, Dan ---
**Author:** ![John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John-Mason_PSShack)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solaris-9-sparc-packages-for-rubygems/63275/3 "2006-06-13T23:22:46Z")
Daniel, Thanks a million! [http://blastwave.org](http://blastwave.org) has packages for ruby 1.8.4 and for rubygems 0.8.11 in their stable tree. Your post saved me hours and hours of work. Thanks! – John-Mason Shackelford Software Developer Pearson Educational Measurement 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52245 ph. 319-354-9200x6214 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://pearsonedmeasurement.com](http://pearsonedmeasurement.com) ---
**Author:** ![John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/94ad74/32.png) [@John-Mason\_PSShack](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John-Mason_PSShack)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/solaris-9-sparc-packages-for-rubygems/63275/4 "2006-06-13T23:42:44Z")
John-Mason P. Shackelford wrote: > Daniel, > > Thanks a million! [http://blastwave.org](http://blastwave.org) has packages for ruby 1.8.4 and > for rubygems 0.8.11 > in their stable tree. Your post saved me hours and hours of work. Thanks! Cool. They must have added those recently. I haven’t checked in a while. 🙂 Dan