From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-02-27T05:27:13+09:00
Subject: QNX install problem


This is with ruby-1.7.3-2002.12.21.

The make process seems to be ok (except for some warnings about a world 
writable dir), and the ruby executable runs from the make dir. But there 
are problems with 'make test' and 'make install'.



# make test
./rubytest.rb:35: warning: Insecure world writable dir /proc/boot, mode 
040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1156: warning: Insecure world 
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1163: warning: Insecure world 
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1164: warning: Insecure world 
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1171: warning: Insecure world 
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1181: warning: Insecure world 
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1182: warning: Insecure world 
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
test failed
make: *** [test] Error 1



make install fails with:

./instruby.rb:114: private method `sub' called for nil (NoMethodError)
         from ./instruby.rb:113:in `open'
         from ./instruby.rb:113
         from ./instruby.rb:101:in `each'
         from ./instruby.rb:101
make: *** [install] Error 1

The nil value comes from an empty file. This seems to be caused by the 
following code in syscopy in ftools.rb:

     begin
       while true
	to.syswrite from.sysread(BUFSIZE)
       end
     rescue EOFError
       ret = true
     rescue => e   # I added the "=> e"
       p e         # I added this line
       ret = false
     ensure
       to.close
       from.close
     end

The exception displayed by the line I added is:

#<IOError: sysread for buffered IO>

How do I get around this?

TIA.