From: Child <child@...9.ds.pwr.wroc.pl>
Date: 2003-03-03T02:50:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 bug

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 01:46:36 +0900, ts wrote:
>>> I can't show the offending code, because the app has about 5000 lines of
>>> code and until now the bug appeared in several places.
>  If it's easy to reproduce the bug send me, in private email, the source.

It should be easy - I'll send it to you later today.

>>> I had the same problem with Ruby 1.6.8. I run Ruby on Gentoo Linux.
> 
>  Personnaly I don't trust linux distribution : debian was able to
>  *completely break* Berkeley DB 4.0.14 :-(((

Gentoo is the "source" distribution - everything is compiled on my
machine. All the distro provides is an .ebuild file containing rules for
downloading, unpacking and compiling the package. And for Ruby 1.8.0 I
created that file myself - it contains nothing more than simple
../configure; make; make install;

Conclusion: although I agree some binary packages in sme distributions
are broken, I am sure this is not such case.

-- 
Marek Janukowicz