From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-10-07T05:31:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with RubyGems

On Oct 4, 2008, at 04:46 AM, Ilian Mitev wrote:
> I've just bought a new asus eee pc 901 and I'm running linux on it.  
> I'm
> still on the default linux which is a modified xandros linux. I  
> compiled
> ruby and rubygems using the tutorial from:
> http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/3/3/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-ubuntu
>
> The only difference that I installed gems 1.3.0. The problem is I  
> can't
> do anything with the gems. They are installed properly, I think,  
> because
> I get a result out of gem -v and gem list ... but when I try to  
> install
> or update ... well then it gets nasty:
>
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: undefined symbol:
> rb_Digest_MD5_Init - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so
> (LoadError)

Sounds like digest/md5 was built incorrectly.  I'm not sure why that  
would be.