Description of problem: When doing a gem install of a native gem that uses mkmf, an additional file is created in the installation directory that appears to be a by-product of the makefile. This breaks RPM builds due to unexpected files when doing gem2rpm, since it uses gem install + mkmf during the build process, e.g. http://koji.katello.org/koji/getfile?taskID=43069&name=build.log Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ruby-2.0.0.195-8.fc19.x86_64 ruby-libs-2.0.0.195-8.fc19.x86_64 rubygems-2.0.3-1.fc19.noarch How reproducible: Always on F19 Steps to Reproduce: 1. gem install mysql 2. ls -l /usr/local/share/gems/gems/mysql-2.9.1/ext/mysql_api/.RUBY* Actual results: # gem install mysql Fetching: mysql-2.9.1.gem (100%) Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed mysql-2.9.1 Parsing documentation for mysql-2.9.1 Installing ri documentation for mysql-2.9.1 Done installing documentation for mysql after 0 seconds 1 gem installed # ls -l /usr/local/share/gems/gems/mysql-2.9.1/ext/mysql_api/.RUBY* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 9 14:22 /usr/local/share/gems/gems/mysql-2.9.1/ext/mysql_api/.RUBYARCHDIR.time Expected results: no .RUBYARCHDIR.time file Additional info: Fixed by upstream r40280, I've tested this successfully: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/34b706f
Hi Dominic, Thank you for reporting the issue and sorry for late response. What problems this file actually cause to you? From your reproducers I don't see any and the Koji's log went away long time ago.
(In reply to Vít Ondruch from comment #1) > Hi Dominic, > > Thank you for reporting the issue and sorry for late response. What problems > this file actually cause to you? From your reproducers I don't see any and > the Koji's log went away long time ago. No major issue, it just caused some RPM rebuilds from F18->F19 (and now F20) to fail due to the unexpected extra file. For now we use %exclude.
Sorry, but I fail to see how the commit you reference could solve the issue. I am testing this issue with Ruby 2.1, where the commit is applied and the .RUBYARCHDIR.time is still present. Actually, the .timestamp dir is used just during build of Ruby and its extensions, when runruby.rb defines $extout global variable. RubyGems does not enforces this option.
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