Merge 'master' into core-updates

gnu/packages/ruby.scm

@@ -1021,34 +1021,6 @@ Ruby Gems.")
   (home-page "http://github.com/rubyzip/rubyzip")
   (license license:bsd-2)))
 
-(define-public ruby-ffi
-  (package
-    (name "ruby-ffi")
-    (version "1.9.18")
-    (source (origin
-              (method url-fetch)
-              (uri (rubygems-uri "ffi" version))
-              (sha256
-               (base32
-                "034f52xf7zcqgbvwbl20jwdyjwznvqnwpbaps9nk18v9lgb1dpx0"))))
-    (build-system ruby-build-system)
-    ;; FIXME: Before running tests the build system attempts to build libffi
-    ;; from sources.
-    (arguments `(#:tests? #f))
-    (native-inputs
-     `(("ruby-rake-compiler" ,ruby-rake-compiler)
-       ("ruby-rspec" ,ruby-rspec)
-       ("ruby-rubygems-tasks" ,ruby-rubygems-tasks)))
-    (inputs
-     `(("libffi" ,libffi)))
-    (synopsis "Ruby foreign function interface library")
-    (description "Ruby-FFI is a Ruby extension for programmatically loading
-dynamic libraries, binding functions within them, and calling those functions
-from Ruby code.  Moreover, a Ruby-FFI extension works without changes on Ruby
-and JRuby.")
-    (home-page "http://wiki.github.com/ffi/ffi")
-    (license license:bsd-3)))
-
 (define-public ruby-simplecov-html
   (package
     (name "ruby-simplecov-html")