Help - Ruby 1.8.0, Mac OS X, AEOSA = bus error

This is my first post to this list, so I'd like to start by offering  
many thanks to all who have contributed so much valuable information  
here to the Ruby community!

I've been making very productive use of Fujimoto Hisakuni's RubyAEOSA  
AppleEvent Ruby extension, using it to automate use of several Mac apps  
that speak AE.

For various reasons, I needed to move to Ruby v1.8.0 from the Mac OS X  
(10.2.5) pre-installed Ruby v1.6.7. I was able to build & install Ruby  
v1.8.0 and make it my default Ruby interpreter.  It works fine, based  
on the the standard tests included with the build package and the few  
other scripts I've tried.  I was also able to re-compile and install  
several Ruby extensions I'm using such as ruby-postgres-0.7.1, pl-ruby,  
etc..

I was also able to simply move Fujimoto Hisakuni's RubyCocoa extension  
from it's default install location in the Mac OS X 10.2.x Ruby 1.6.7  
extension directory to the appropriate lib/site_ruby/1.8/osx directory  
for my newly compiled Ruby v1.8.0.  That package seems to work fine as  
is, at least as far as I can tell from the few examples I've tested.

When I try to do the same for RubyAEOSA - just mv it from the old to  
the new lib location - I get the following when I try to 'require' the  
package:

irb(main):001:0> require 'osx/aeosa'
/usr/local/ruby-xtra/ruby-alt/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/osx/aeosa/ 
aedesc.rb:303: [BUG] Bus Error
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-03-03) [powerpc-darwin6.5]
Abort

This same package worked just fine under Ruby v1.6.7.

I then tried to re-build the extension from source using my new Ruby  
v1.8 as the base directory, as I've done successfully with other Ruby  
extensions.  The install.rb config --> install.rb setup --> install.rb  
build/install process appeared to proceed without error.  When I tried  
to use it, however, I got the same error as is listed above.

I've scoured this list both for info on RubyAEOSA and on dealing with  
'bus error' reports when trying to load a Ruby extension.  I picked up  
from posts on 'bus error' that problems like this can occur when an  
extension is not built so that it can be dynamically loaded correctly  
by Ruby.  That doesn't seem to be the case for the RubyAEOSA package.   
The Makefile created includes the following line:

LDSHARED = cc -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat_namespace

I did find one post (for getting around the 'bus error' problem with  
the FXRuby extension -  
http://www.fifthplanet.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Mac_OS_X) recommending  
changing this to:

LDSHARED = cc++ -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat_namespace  
-read_only_relocs supress

I tried this, but I still got the same result - a 'bus error' when  
'requiring' RubyAEOSA.

I'd really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions you have that might  
help me get this great extension running on Mac OS X 10.2 under Ruby  
v1.8.0.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Bill Bug


Bill Bug
Senior Analyst/Ontological Engineer

Computer Vision Laboratory for Vertebrate Brain Mapping
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
Drexel University College of Medicine
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