From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-06-04T19:46:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Gem 0.4 segfaults on winxp upon install

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:01:27 +0900, "Pe�a, Botp" <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote:
> 
> Chad Fowler [mailto:chadfowler@gmail.com] helpfully wrote:
> 
> > > c:/ruby181-13/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/builder.rb:61: [BUG]
> > > Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-05-19) [i386-mswin32]
> > >
> > > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> > > unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more
> > > information.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Strange one.   I'm not seeing this on my computer at work.  I'm
> > running the windows installer version from RubyForge (latest
> > one).  It looks like the following line from builder.rb is
> > causing Ruby to segfault on your computer
> >
> >  data = [Zlib::Deflate.deflate(File.open(entry['path'], "rb") {|f|
> > f.read})].pack("m")
> >
> > Can you try this from the shell in windows to see if it also
> > segfaults?
> >
> > ruby -rzlib -e 'p Zlib::Deflate.deflate("Blah")'
> 
> Yes, it does segfaults.
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> C:\temp\gem\rubygems-0.4.0>ruby -rzlib -e 'p Zlib::Deflate.deflate("Blah")'
> -e:1: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-05-19) [i386-mswin32]
> 
> 

Can anyone else confirm that zlib segfaults on this release of ruby on Windows?

Chad