Dear Maintainer,

On a stock wheezy vm, I ran:

  $ apt-get install ruby-build
  $ apt-get build-dep ruby1.8
  $ mkdir ~/.rubies
  $ ruby-build 1.8.7-p302 ~/.rubies/1.8.7-p302

This failed with the following output:

  Downloading
http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p302.tar.gz...
  Installing ruby-1.8.7-p302...

  BUILD FAILED

  Inspect or clean up the working tree at
  /tmp/ruby-build.20130228181619.418
  Results logged to /tmp/ruby-build.20130228181619.418.log

  Last 10 log lines:
  ossl_ssl.c:111:5: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
  [enabled by default]
  ossl_ssl.c:111:5: warning: (near initialization for
  ‘ossl_ssl_method_tab[10].func’) [enabled by default]
  ossl_ssl.c:112:5: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
  [enabled by default]
  ossl_ssl.c:112:5: warning: (near initialization for
  ‘ossl_ssl_method_tab[11].func’) [enabled by default]
  ossl_ssl.c: In function ‘ossl_ssl_get_cipher’:
  ossl_ssl.c:1224:12: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from
  pointer target type [enabled by default]
  make[1]: *** [ossl_ssl.o] Error 1
  make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  make[1]: Leaving directory
  `/tmp/ruby-build.20130228181619.418/ruby-1.8.7-p302/ext/openssl'
  make: *** [all] Error 1

This is due to a known problem with wheezy's SSL, which has no SSL2
support:

http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4860

I would suggest that ruby definitions which are known not to be
buildable on wheezy be removed from /usr/share/ruby-build/.  However I
would also suggest that a way be found to support this specific version
of MRI, since it's the version in squeeze.

severity 1022164 wishlist
severity 701918 wishlist
merge 701918 1022164
tag 701918 upstream

thanks

I don't necessarily think we should remove non-buildable rubies. Upstream
keeps them around, so I don't know why we'd go through the trouble of removing
them in the Debian package.

Marking as wishlist since this is a design flaw (of sorts) in ruby-build. Also
merging in a similar bug.

Apologies for the necro, just trying to clear through the bugs for this
package. You probably haven't thought about this issue in over a decade
(ᵕ—ᴗ—)