From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-03-29T00:09:31+09:00
Subject: Re: error installing libxml



On Mar 28, 7:46 am, Bu Mihai <mihai.bul...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> i have this error:
>
> gem install libxml-ruby
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  Error installing libxml-ruby:
>         ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install libxml-ruby
> extconf.rb:6:in `[]': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
>         from extconf.rb:6:in `method_missing'
>         from extconf.rb:6:in `method_missing'
>         from extconf.rb:34
>
> Gem files will remain installed in
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.
> 5.4 for inspection.
> Results logged to
> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.4/ext/libxml/ge
> m_make.out
>
> What can i do?

Change line 34 to:

  objs = srcs.collect do |srcfile|

(ie. change src -> srcs)

T.