From: Lee <feigenb@...>
Date: 2004-10-26T04:34:08+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-htmltools on cygwin - SystemStackError

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:01:14 +0900, Markus <markus@reality.com> wrote:
[snip some very helpful advice and observations]

>      Have you checked to see if this is a known issue, or platform
> specific, etc.?
>

Hi Markus,

Thanks for the keen observations, it would be interesting to 
uncomment that debugging puts and follow the stack trace -- I
did also file a bug report at the rubyforge page for ruby-htmltools.

However, in my particular case, the problem was averted (I don't
say solved since it remains unexplained!) by installing the
pre-packaged ruby binaries that cygwin makes available (it is
version 1.8.1, rather than the 1.8.2 that I had downloaded from
the ruby download site). Perhaps there is some internal change
in ruby's stackframe handling between 1.8.1 and 1.8.2 that does
not play nicely with cygwin? I wish I had time on my hands
to investigate this, but alas, I do not.

Thanks for the helpful answer,
Lee


PS As an ironic end to this particular saga, it turns out
that the HTML returned by the site that I wish to parse is
so absurdly malformed that I cannot find a single automated
tool that does not choke on it, and so I have fallen back
to using (sigh) regular expressions to "parse" it as best
I can.