From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-02-20T03:24:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Curses on OS X

On 2/19/02 10:42 AM, "Kevin Elhart" <kevin@recursive.ca> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a ruby newbie (oh, gawd...it rhymes)
> 
> Trying out the curses module with 1.6.6.  When running the 'hello.rb'
> example I get an odd error, I've narrowed it down to this line:
> 
> win.box(?|, ?=)
> 
> The error is: 
> 
> hello.rb:10: [BUG] Bus Error ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [powerpc-darwin5.2]
> Abort trap
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to fix this?
> 
>   Cheers!
> 

When you configure ruby on Darwin use:
configure --enable-shared --mandir=usr/local/share/man

Evil things will happen without this invocation.
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