From: Zane Vohland <zcvohland@...>
Date: 2007-02-04T15:09:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing 1.8.5 but getting unknown file type ./.ext/

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Zane <zcvohland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have spent a couple of days trying to get the Fox GUI library to
>> interact with ruby. Now I think I am getting close. Before I go on to
>> explain my problem here is some information that may be necessary...
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 
>> Software Versions:
>> ----------------------
>> Ruby 1.8.1
> 
> Just curious: Why still running Ruby 1.8.1?
> 
>> Abort trap
> OK, that's bad. When I say that's bad, I mean, I don't recall ever
> seeing ruby outright *crash* when trying to load FXRuby. It's more
> common to see, for example, a failure to find one of the shared
> libraries that FXRuby needs, but the error message in that case is
> more descriptive than a simple "Bus Error".
> 
>> When I try require 'fox' in irb I get this message:
>>
>> LoadError: No such file to load -- fox
>>         from (irb):1:in `require'
>>         from (irb):1
>>
>> But I take it that as long as I can get fox16 working then this won't be
>> a problem.
> 
> Yeah, that's OK. The feature name that you should be trying to require
> is 'fox16'.
> 
>> I have trawled through website after website trying to find a fix to
>> this problem or some helpful information... I have have read a heap of
>> FXRuby documentation and some Ruby Documentation.
> 
> Thank you for doing all of that research on your own first. Like I
> said, this is a new one to me, so you aren't going to find anything
> about it in the FXRuby documentation.
> 
>> P.S: Here is a copy of what is writen to ruby1.8.crash.log:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I scanned the stack trace, and it looks like the FXRuby code was
> trying to call an internal Ruby function (st_lookup) when it failed. I
> have a hunch that that interface has changed a bit since Ruby 1.8.1
> (which is several years old now).
> 
> My advice is to upgrade to the most recent version of Ruby (1.8.5),
> and then recompile FXRuby and try again. You shouldn't need to
> recompile FOX -- just zap your FXRuby build directory and recompile
> that part.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Lyle

Thanks for the reply Lyle,

I did infact try to update to 1.8.5 but I receive an error message when 
I try to "make install". I run through the commands normally:
   ./configure
   make test
      >>I get a nice "test succeded"
   make install

Make Install runs through a heap of stuff nicely but then stumbles on 
this:


./miniruby ./ext/extmk.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags="" 
--make-flags="" --extout=".ext" --extension  --extstatic  -- install
cp -r ./.ext/. /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8
/Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1239:in `copy': 
unknown file type: ./.ext/. (RuntimeError)
        from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:447:in 
`copy_entry'
        from 
/Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1308:in `traverse'
        from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:445:in 
`copy_entry'
        from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:423:in 
`cp_r'
        from 
/Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1379:in 
`fu_each_src_dest'
        from 
/Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1393:in 
`fu_each_src_dest0'
        from 
/Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:1377:in 
`fu_each_src_dest'
        from /Users/ZaneV/Desktop/ruby-1.8.5-p12/lib/fileutils.rb:422:in 
`cp_r'
        from ./ext/extmk.rb:389
make: *** [do-install-ext] Error 1

That has got me stumped... I went to the fileutils.rb script and checked 
it out but I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing.

Has anyone else came across this error?

Also will I have to uninstal 1.8.1... or will 1.8.5 fix that?

Thanks,

Zane

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