Re: ruby-1.8.3 preview1 - failure: cygwin.

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Nakada, Nobuyoshi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Fri, 13 May 2005 07:20:44 +0900,
> Hugh Sasse wrote in [ruby-core:04932]:
>> This appears to be due to incorrect quoting in the makefile -- that
>> is to say,
         [...]
>
> Sorry, I hope this helps.

No need to apologise :-)  Thank you for the patch.
I applied the patch, did
make distclean
and got some errors (see below).
I thought, maybe it is enough, so I did
./configure
make
make test
and the test succeeded.  Thank you.
So I then re-did 
make distclean
and all was fine this time: no problems.
./configure && make && make test
and the tests were passed.


For completeness, the problems I had with the first `make distclean`
were:

$ make distclean
cleaning Win32API
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/HGS/My Documents
/My Programs/ruby-1.8.3/ruby-1.8.3/ext/Win32API'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/HGS/My Documents/
My Programs/ruby-1.8.3/ruby-1.8.3/ext/Win32API'
cleaning bigdecimal
make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/HGS/My Documents
/My Programs/ruby-1.8.3/ruby-1.8.3/ext/bigdecimal'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/HGS/My Documents/
My Programs/ruby-1.8.3/ruby-1.8.3/ext/bigdecimal'
cleaning curses
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/HGS/My Documents/My Programs/ruby-1.8.3/ruby-
1.8.3/lib/mkmf.rb:850:in `configuration': undefined method `quote' for nil:NilCl
ass (NoMethodError)
         from /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/HGS/My Documents/My Programs/rub
y-1.8.3/ruby-1.8.3/lib/mkmf.rb:912:in `dummy_makefile'
         from ./ext/extmk.rb:155:in `extmake'
         from ./ext/extmk.rb:154:in `open'
         from ./ext/extmk.rb:154:in `extmake'
         from ./ext/extmk.rb:378
         from ./ext/extmk.rb:377:in `each'
         from ./ext/extmk.rb:377
make: [distclean-ext] Error 1 (ignored)

HGS@hugh ~/My Documents/My Programs/ruby-1.8.3/ruby-1.8.3
$ 
>
That may not matter now.

A couple of questions arise from this:

1)  Is there a version of script for cygwin?  I mean the unix
program that records the session in a file called typescript.  It's
rather difficult to search for with google :-)

2)  What is the status of the Rubicon project, or is there some
other way you would like us to stress-test ruby-1.8.3 on the
platforms available to us?

Thank you again,
         Hugh