From: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@...>
Date: 2002-07-22T14:21:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Install troubles

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 01:37:32PM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On 7/21/02 8:00 PM, "Chris Gehlker" <gehlker@fastq.com> wrote:
> 
> Ok, here is what I did and what I found:
> 
> I erased ruby from /usr/local and re-installed it with Fink. Then I tried
> irb and it worked fine. That probably was not what you wanted to hear, Jim.
> 
> I did pick up a potential clue, though. Fink told me that there were
> unsatisfied dependencies and took it's suggestion for how to resolve them.
> It installed not only readline but readline.shlibs. Maybe it missed that on
> your install somehow.
> 
> Sorry I can't provide more help. I hate it when I get "It works for me" type
> posts but I think you might be best served just to sudo rm -rf your /sw
> hierarchy and either install ruby in /usr/local/... from the tarball or
> re-install Fink.
> 

Hmm, re-installing fink seems kind of drastic. I just upgraded it yesterday
and got the CVS sources. Plus, I installed tetex today which took
about 5 hours and that worked fine.

There must be some way to break this problem down to find the cause.

Jim

> 
> > On 7/21/02 5:52 PM, "Jim Freeze" <jfreeze@freebsdportal.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Well, since that did not work, tried to install again via fink and
> >> I get:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Well this sucks. I was thinking that maybe it was a flat-namespace issue so
> > I undid libruby-frmwk. This broke a few things but *not* irb. I have a few
> > other things to try to see if I can reproduce your problem. Back soon.
> 
> -- 
> There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity
> that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to
> trees and plants. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
> 

-- 
Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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