From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2009-12-30T22:41:06+09:00
Subject: SystemStackError with gem installs, 1.8.7-p248

Hi,

I upgraded to ruby 1.8.7 p248 yesterday. Since then I've started
seeing these error messages on gem installs:

dberger@globe-madison ~>sudo gem install sys-filesystem
Password:
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed sys-filesystem-0.3.2
1 gem installed
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (SystemStackError)
    stack level too deep

The gem appears to install fine. It's just that final error message
that's started showing up. I saw the same thing with passenger. Here's
my environment:

dberger@globe-madison ~>gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.5
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2009-12-24 patchlevel 248) [i686-
darwin10.2.0]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/local/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/local/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86-darwin-10
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
     - /Users/dberger/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - "gemcutter_key" => "330e8dd81e58e5b50e5a28fe920ec166"
     - :sources => ["http://gemcutter.org", "http://
gems.rubyforge.org/", "http://gems.github.com"]
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://gemcutter.org
     - http://gems.rubyforge.org/
     - http://gems.github.com

Anyone else seeing this? BTW, running with --verbose provided no
additional clues for me.

Regards,

Dan