From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-12-03T05:58:53+09:00
Subject: Re: invalid date error when installing syntax gem

Victor wrote:
> Any news on this? I'm having the same issue and I guess I'll have to
> go through the manual install if there has been no patch submitted
> yet...
> 
> Thanks
> Victor
> 
> On Nov 27, 3:03 pm, Joel VanderWerf <vj...@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> Luis Lavena wrote:
>>> 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
>> Thanks!
>>
>> I tried to find 4.4.2 in karmic-proposed or karmic-backports, but no
>> luck. Do you install 4.4.2 from lucid? From source?
>>
>> I added a comment on launchpad about this... I would hope that, since
>> 4.4.2 is a bugfix release, it gets pushed into the updates for karmic.


Victor,

if you're on ubuntu, you can install gcc-4.3, export CC='gcc-4.3', and 
rebuild ruby. Anyway, that fixed it for me.

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