From: Oliver Cromm <lispamateur@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T07:40:55+09:00
Subject: Error with bdb installation

I'm trying to use WordNet, database version, with ruby library. [1] 

I'm getting the "error 126" when I try convertdb.rb:

| /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/bdb.so: dlopen, Win32 error 126 - /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/bdb.so (LoadError)

Not surprisingly, bdb.so is there:

% ls -l 
total 402
drwxrwxrwx+ 2 crommc mkgroup-l-d   4096 Jan 26 16:40 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 8 crommc mkgroup-l-d   4096 Dec 10 12:36 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 crommc mkgroup-l-d 148992 Jan 26 16:39 bdb.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 crommc mkgroup-l-d 133120 Aug  2 16:21 maxent.so
-rwxr-xr-x  1 crommc mkgroup-l-d  13312 Nov  1 17:29 mod_curia.so
[...]

I read [2] that this was an error in ruby-1.8.1 that should be fixed in
1.8.2, but upgrading Ruby to 1.8.2 didn't change this problem.

Also, in trying to reinstall bdb, I have problems with extconf.rb.
Whatever parameters I give, it says "libdb not found". What is the exact
file it is looking for?

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Footnotes:
[1] <http://www.deveiate.org/code/Ruby-WordNet.html>
[2] http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=20040812171617.EE6726F0.ocean%40m2.ccsnet.ne.jp
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