From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-11-27T10:45:27+09:00
Subject: Re: invalid date error when installing syntax gem

On Nov 4, 2:14 am, Joel VanderWerf <vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>
> > Anyone else getting this error? I didn't find any recent mention of it.
>
> > gem install syntax --backtrace
> > ERROR:  While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
> >     invalid date
>
> Forgot to say: this is the only gem with this problem. I set up a new
> system today with about 40 other gems that installed fine, except the
> ones dependent on syntax.
>
> There's no improvement when downloading the gem file and installing it.
> The same version of syntax (1.0.0) has worked for me before, with the
> same versions of ruby and gem.
>
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i686-linux]
> $ gem --version
> 1.3.5
>
> However, I'm using gcc 4.4.1 for the first time (ubuntu 9.10).
>

The problem is related to gcc 4.4 and some issue with date parsing.

Try getting gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.2-1ubuntu4) 4.4.2

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Luis Lavena