From: Tom Cloyd Date: 2009-02-20T00:05:02+09:00 Subject: Re: I have to be missing something simple here. thermowax@gmail.com wrote: > On Feb 18, 7:58 pm, Tom Cloyd wrote: > >> thermo...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I have some code that was written in the Ruby-1.8ish era. However, >>> the newer versions append the version number to all library/etc >>> filenames, which is causing problems- for example, "/usr/local/bin/ >>> ruby" no longer exists, it's "/usr/local/bin/ruby19". I'd stay with >>> 1.8 but when I try to run the software on the new system I'm trying to >>> set up (FreeBSD) it complains that gzip library isn't present. >>> >>> I know from Googling that zlib was included with Ruby starting with >>> 1.8, so I'm not quite sure what's going on there. Rather than fiddle >>> with that, I thought I'd just get a newer version (1.9.1 is the >>> current for FreeBSD 7.1, IIRC), but then I run into the above >>> mentioned filename problems. >>> >>> Am I missing something? Surely it should be more backward compatible >>> than that... I thought the problem might be that the FreeBSD packages >>> were broken, but compiling from source results in the same problem. >>> Should I just set up links or rename everything to the old filenames? >>> Was there some drastic change in Ruby that necessitated the versions >>> not commingle? Argh. >>> >>> Thanks for any input, >>> Jim >>> >> Jim, I'm competent only to comment on part of your problem. I know this: >> If you have Ruby 1.8.x installed, and then also install 1.9.x, the >> installation process will keep them separate by appending ...1.9 to all >> (I HOPE all!) the 1.9 components. That's what happened on my Kubuntu >> Linux OS. What implications this might have for the internals of various >> Ruby scripts of which any particular piece of software s composed I can >> only conjecture. >> >> I think you may have two Ruby's installed on your OS. For the present, I >> don't think there's a realistic alternative to this setup. I'm NOT sure >> how best to manage it, however. Still learning. >> >> t. >> > > > Tom- > > Thanks for the input. Nope, only one Ruby- I've tried it several > different ways. I did notice in the changelog for 1.9.0 that there > are several "severe" incompatible changes, so perhaps that's why > they're segregating the versions like that. (I'd love to hear it if > anyone knows!) > > For the moment I'm going to fall back to 1.8.0.111 and try to get zlib > working. My other concern is that I don't know if all the current > extension binding packages (pango, glib2, gtk2, etc etc) are going to > play nicely with it. Sigh. I wouldn't mind _that_ much except > finding older versions of this stuff can be an immense pain in the > butt, and it's a crap shoot which versions work together. Hmm, a > compatibility table would be nice... > > Thanks again- > Jim > > > Don't know if this helps or not, but... I use 1.8.7 for most of my work and everything *I* needs seems to be available and working for it. Not so with 9.1. When I recently reinstalled my kubuntu linux, I found that somehow 9.1 had been installed by something, somehow, without my knowledge. It was causing me some problems, relative to my 1.8.7 installation. I removed them both, installed 1.8.7 (from source), got it working, then installed 9.1 from Synaptic package manager. Everything's working great, other than that I cannot find everything I need for 9.1, yet. I expect Libraries will come available over time. So...you might want to try 1.8.7, after doing some housecleaning. t. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC - Private practice Psychotherapist Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226 << tc@tomcloyd.com >> (email) << TomCloyd.com >> (website) << sleightmind.wordpress.com >> (mental health weblog) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~