Building Ruby 1.9.3 package for Debian Squeeze

gistfile1.sh

# From a fresh install of squeeze
test "$DEBUG" && set -x
set -ue

if test "$1"; then
    SOURCE_VERSION="$1"
else
    SOURCE_VERSION="1.9.3-p286"
fi

echo -n "Using ruby version: "
if ! test "$(echo $SOURCE_VERSION | sed '/^([0-9]{1})\.([0-9]{1})\.([0-9]{1})-p([0-9]+)$/g')"; then
  echo " "
  echo "$SOURCE_VERSION is not a valid ruby source version"
  exit 1
fi

if ! which ruby; then
  apt-get -y install ruby rubygems # Need ruby to use fpm
  gem1.8 install fpm --no-ri --no-rdoc
fi

apt-get -y install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev ncurses-dev libyaml-dev

cd /tmp
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-$SOURCE_VERSION.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ruby-$SOURCE_VERSION.tar.gz
cd ruby-$SOURCE_VERSION
rm -rf /tmp/ruby_source
time (./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install DESTDIR=/tmp/ruby_source)

/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/fpm -s dir -t deb -n ruby_source -v $SOURCE_VERSION --description "Self-packaged Ruby $SOURCE_VERSION" -C /tmp/ruby_source \
  -p ruby-$SOURCE_VERSION-VERSION_ARCH.deb -d "libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.3)" \
  -d "libc6 (>= 2.6)" -d "libffi5 (>= 3.0.4)" -d "libgdbm3 (>= 1.8.3)" \
  -d "libncurses5 (>= 5.7)" -d "libreadline6 (>= 6.1)" \
  -d "libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8)" -d "zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.2)" \
  -d "libyaml-0-2 (>= 0.1.3)" \
  usr/bin usr/lib usr/share/man usr/include


# Post installation test
apt-get -y remove ruby rubygems
apt-get -y install libffi5 libyaml-0-2
dpkg -i ruby*.deb
ruby -ropenssl -rzlib -rreadline -ryaml -e "puts :success" 

This is not tested. FYI.