From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2006-04-27T14:56:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.4 RDoc Seg fault


On Apr 26, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Brian Marick wrote:

> For what it's worth, I've had trouble all day when rubygems runs  
> rdoc on gems. I blew away 1.8.4 and reverted to the 1.8.2 that  
> comes with OSX Tiger.

This is a bug in ruby where VALUEs collide exacerbated by GCC4 on  
PPC. We've partially fixed it on the 1.8 branch in CVS, but it is  
still there (just a lot less--feels like 60-80% less). I've found  
that rdoc seems to push it more. It probably generates a lot more  
symbols than most programs. I've found that if you keep running the  
rdoc command, it'll eventually generate everything and be fine. Not  
good, I know, but better than rolling back to stock 1.8.2 in many  
situations.