ruby-install: ruby-install depends on xzcat, which is not available out of the box on all platforms
Description
I maintain a script that installs Ruby on a Mac. If Homebrew is not yet present on the machine, the script installs Homebrew, then installs chruby and ruby-install, then installs the latest Ruby with ruby-install. Up until the latest xzcat changes in 0.8.4, it was working perfectly. But now, on a machine that didn’t have Homebrew prior to running my script, the Ruby compilation fails with:
xzcat: command not found
Instead of assuming xzcat is in the PATH, would it be better to use the full path using the brew prefix, like $(brew --prefix)/xzcat?
cc @jmettraux
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 2 years ago
- Reactions: 1
- Comments: 17 (8 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- Added `xz` as a dependency to the homebrew formula (issue #429). — committed to postmodern/ruby-install by postmodern 2 years ago
- Also mention that `xz` is now a dependency in the README (issue #429). — committed to postmodern/ruby-install by postmodern 2 years ago
- Also add `xz` as a dependency to the RPM spec (issue #429). — committed to postmodern/ruby-install by postmodern 2 years ago
OK ruby-install 0.8.5 has now been tagged and ruby-install’s own copy of its homebrew formula has been updated. Hopefully, homebrew will automatically copy in the updated homebrew formula with the
xzdependency.We can add
xzas a dependency to the homebrew formula.