From: Artie Ziff <artie.ziff@...>
Date: 2008-06-06T15:54:34+09:00
Subject: ruby gems install error

Hello,

I am hoping to get some ideas here. Being new to ruby, I am not familiar
enough with all the pieces to know how to diagnose my installation
issue. I am attempting to install rubygems 1.1.1 is on a RHEL4 host.

The following line (#51) was deleted:
require 'rdoc/rdoc'

# ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [x86_64-linux]

# cd rubygems-1.1.1
# ruby setup.rb --no-ri --no-doc

This is final 30 lines of output from setup.rb:

install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/query_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/query_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/dependency_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/dependency_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/mirror_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/mirror_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/unpack_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/unpack_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/sources_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/sources_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/pristine_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/pristine_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/install_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/install_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/check_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/check_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/help_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/help_command.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/commands/search_command.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/commands/search_command.rb
mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/package/tar_input.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_input.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/package/tar_reader.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_reader.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/package/f_sync_dir.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/f_sync_dir.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/package/tar_writer.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_writer.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/package/tar_header.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_header.rb
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/package/tar_output.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_output.rb
mkdir -p /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_reader
install -c -m 0644 rubygems/package/tar_reader/entry.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package/tar_reader/entry.rb
cp gem /tmp_dk/rubygems-1.1.1/bin/gem
rm /tmp_dk/rubygems-1.1.1/bin/gem
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1378:in `fu_each_src_dest': same file:
gem and /tmp_dk/rubygems-1.1.1/bin/gem (ArgumentError)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1395:in `fu_each_src_dest0'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1377:in `fu_each_src_dest'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:382:in `cp'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:1510:in `cp'
	from setup.rb:134
	from setup.rb:123:in `each'
	from setup.rb:123
	from setup.rb:118:in `chdir'
	from setup.rb:118


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Any ideas?

Thx!
az

PS: For reasons out of my control, I cannot simply change change the OS,
so moving to a different OS/release is not an option, unfortunately.
Thank you for your understanding.