Help needed: net/rubygem-grpc

[Torsten Zuehlsdorff]

On 28.06.2017 17:41, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Am 28.06.2017 um 04:14 schrieb Steve Wills:
>> I was taking a look at this. It looks like several things are going on.
>> As you noticed, it's going to have to use gmake, you can patch the
>> extconf.rb for that. But then you run into other issues. It's expecting
>> a pkg-config file for openssl, which we don't have for the openssl in
>> base (src). I think this is the only thing in base lacking a .pc file.
>> We will have to patch the Makefile for that. It would be best not to use
>> any of the bundled things and instead use the versions from ports. I
>> noticed there's a newer version, 1.4.0, but it has the same issues. Will
>> the newer gitlab work with the 1.4.0 version of the grpc gem?
> 
> regarding the comment here:
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/issues/154#note_33314534
> 
> I think gitlab should work with version 1.4.0, but I think a test is always a good idea.

Thanks for your time Steve! To add something to Matthias comment: there 
is already a devel/grpc port, which seems to be very similar to the 
needed rubygem. Maybe this could help us?

Greetings,
Torsten