Support ruby compilation with piped patches #95
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I just had to install an old Ruby
1.9.3-p448
on CentOS 6.4, however there is a known issue with compiling2.0.0-p247
and lower on RedHat derivatives. See https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8384 for the issue. To do that, I needed to patch the Ruby, which I couldn't have done as easily with the current version.If you checkout the ruby-build wiki, you can see other documented workarounds using the recently added
--patch
functionality of ruby-build, so I think its worth trying to support it.While I'm not sure that this is the best interface for it, it seems flexible enough to support my (most?) use cases. I'm currently using it like this: