From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-12-07T02:42:09+09:00
Subject: Re: irb aborts in 1.7.3 on Solaris

Hi,

At Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:15:19 +0900,
Jim Freeze wrote:
> > > I just did a cvs get and compiled 1.7.3 on Solaris:
> > > 
> > > uname -a
> > > SunOS juno 5.8 Generic_108528-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
> > > 
> > > 
> > > When running irb, I get the following error:
> > > 
> > > irb
> > > /home/jfn/myruby173/lib/ruby/1.7/sparc-solaris2.8/nkf.so: [BUG]
> > > Segmentation fault
> > > ruby 1.7.3 (2002-12-04) [sparc-solaris2.8]
> > > Abort
> > 
> > irb shouldn't use nkf.
> > 
> > Can't you get backtrace?
> > 
> 
> Sorry, not much of an extension debugger.
> What commands do I need to get a backtrace?

Do you have gdb?

$ gdb `which ruby` core
(gdb) bt

You may need to link nkf.o to ruby statically.

-- 
Nobu Nakada