Ruby for OpenMoko - got it small

[Kero van Gelder]

> > So what do you think guys? Shall I keep going and trying to get it
> > smaller and faster or shall I abandon this and spend my time on
> > something more useful.
> 
> I for one am very much interested and grateful for your efforts.
> Having used Ruby as my main programming language for all development
> work (thus, not only for scripting) for more than two years now, I
> consider the existence of a carefully optimized ruby engine for
> openmoko as a very important piece of the puzzle. If, thanks to your
> work, the ruby interpreter were to find a little corner in the default
> OM distribution, that would be a key selling point for me.

I dug up some of my iPAQ-time scripts and cross compiled ruby 1.8.6
I must say, OE does provide a lot of .h and .so files in only a few
places, which makes this an easy-enough task.

I measure footprint on the jffs2 image. My ipkgs together are less than
2 MB. Uncompressed, I do not so much care.

For your convenience:
   http://chmeee.dyndns.org/om/ruby/feed/

keep in mind some of those won't work. Openssl bindings are empty, for
instance, which I will not change since dropbear is installed by
default. Tk is not even provided.
Installing readline does not work, same reason.
Forcing an install of irb, will make irb work.

Bye,
Kero.