Re: Ruby 1.8.2 to be released.

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: Ruby 1.8.2 to be released."
>    on 04/06/24, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> |Are there minimum versions for GCC and/or binutils that we should be
> |using for building Ruby, and is this documented anywhere?
>
> Ruby compilation should not depend on any particular version of the
> compiler.  If something bad happens it must be either our fault or
> their fault.  I'm not sure I can tell who's fault.

OK, well it may be related to the 64 bit question.  Anyway, the
offer to run some tests on release candidates stands.

The only other problem I have encountered recently is with
YAML::load exploding when restoring certain yaml'ed rss feeds. 
It dies thusly:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/rubytypes.rb:315: [BUG] Segmentation
fault
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [sparc-solaris2.9]

Abort (core dumped)

The code to reproduce this is:
<quote>
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby -w -v

require 'yaml'

%x{wget http://www.whytheluckystiff.net:80/why.xml}
# or you could get it with ruby. This was the first feed to fail
# just now.

string = ''
File.open("why.xml",'r') {|f|
    string = f.read
}
File.open("yamled_index","w") {|w|
    w.puts YAML::dump(string)
}
new_string = ''
File.open("yamled_index",'r') {|r|
    new_string = YAML::load(r.read)
}

puts new_string == string

</quote>

>
> 							matz.
>
>
         Thank you
         Hugh