From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-05-18T09:54:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36297] Re: unable to load irb, 1.9.3 mingw

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How you built ruby?
>
> from source, mingw/msys with "make install"
>

Then that is the reason there is no irb file but the content of irb
has been merged into irb.bat

The reasoning was be able to do -S irb and work :-)

>> Here is the thing: Ruby default approach was add irb contents to
>> irb.bat, something we removed from RubyInstaller project, check the
>> rubyinstaller source code for that:
>>
>> https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/blob/master/recipes/interpreter/ruby19.rake#L138-154
>
> Ok. �So with rubyinstaller it does work, but with vanilla mingw builds
> it doesn't. �Is this worth reporting?

Please do, even better if a patch is provided.

Hint:

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/tool/rbinstall.rb#L465

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Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
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