Hi,

this is a rant mail so, first of all I'm sorry if I annoy someone, but I'm
frustrate with bootstrap_toolchain and whatever with ruby in orocos.

I'm sure that bootstrap_toolchain works perfectly but, it should be a nice
tool to help you to use orocos and it makes me to have a lot of problems that
before, with cmake I didn't have.

Although that in theory it should work with a debian system, when I run
bootstrap_toolchain always shows this message:

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The packages that will be built require some other software to be installed

>From the operating system:
ruby18

and I HAVE ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1, so, I don't understand why insist to install a
local copy of ruby in my home directory.

Also,

>From the operating system:
libxml2
zlib
lsb_release
build-essential
libxslt

also,

>From RubyGems:
autobuild
rdoc

and I have rdoc

I have ALL. I can compile ocl rtt typelib utilmm using cmake without any
problems, but bootstrap_toolchain insist that I need to install more
packages.

I would like to know:

1) how I can compile/install orogen, typegen, autoproject, utilrb without
bootstrap or autoproject.

2) which are the dependencies of orogen, autoproj and utilrb?

3) can I avoid to have a local installation of ruby in .gems?

4) someone are working on the debian packages of orocos-toolchain?

I don't think that have a wonderfull tool that hides all the process was a
good idea, although many people thinks on the contrary. Maybe for a local
installation (one user) could be a good solution having the needed packages
installed locally, but if you want to maintain it for a group, it's not
useful.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the rant mode.

Regards,

Leo