[GitHub] [bigtop] guyuqi commented on pull request #632: BIGTOP-3346: Introduce Ruby to Bigtop Toolchain

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guyuqi commented on pull request #632:
URL: https://github.com/apache/bigtop/pull/632#issuecomment-620464186


   > I prefer to have ruby from distro or rvm.
   
   @oflebbe really thanks for your comments.
   
   We do need the ruby-related facilities such as ruby rumtime, rake, gem and bundle to build logstash. 
   And for the Arm64 dependency issues, the ruby-2.4 is the latest version that works with logstash. 
   But ruby version is 2.0 in Centos 7 and 2.3 in ubuntu16.04.
   
   When leveraging rvm to install ruby, rvm would pull the ruby binaries and spend less time than  compiling ruby directly on x86_64.
   But on Arm64, no ruby binaries are available and rvm would also download source code and compile ruby.
   
   IMHO, our Bigtop should support different kind of distros and platforms(x86_64/arm64).
   If ruby-2.4 were downloaded and compiled directly , it could guarantee that ruby-related facilities would be properly installed on the various distros and platforms though it may cost extra time just on x86 when building bigtop_toolchain. WDYT? 
   Thanks!
   


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