From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-07-31T08:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: some local issues with ruby 1.8.0 preview 4 and 5

Hi,

At Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:04:50 +0900,
Gavin Jin wrote:
> compiling dbm
> ./ext/extmk.rb:104: warning: Insecure world writable dir 
> /Users/gjin/code, mode 040777
> cc -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat_namespace  
> -L"/Volumes/software/development/ruby/1.8Preview5/ruby-1.8.0" 
> -L"/usr/local/lib" -o dbm.bundle dbm.o  -ldb  -ldl -lobjc
> ld: can't locate file for: -ldb
> make[1]: *** [dbm.bundle] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 1

ld searches libdb.la (or .dylib?).

> This happens even with /sw/lib, where gdbm is installed, is in the 
> library path.
> I then tried to add symbolic links to /usr/local/lib :
> [dhcp-64-101-108-187:/usr/local/lib] gjin% sudo ln -s 
> /Volumes/OpenApps/sw/lib/libgdbm.la libgdbm.la
> Password:
> [dhcp-64-101-108-187:/usr/local/lib] gjin% sudo ln -s 
> /Volumes/OpenApps/sw/lib/libgdbm.a libgdbm.a
> [dhcp-64-101-108-187:/usr/local/lib] gjin% sudo ln -s 
> /Volumes/OpenApps/sw/lib/libgdbm.2.0.0.dylib libgdbm.dylib
> [dhcp-64-101-108-187:/usr/local/lib] gjin%

instead of gdbm.

Try to "configure" with --with-opt-dir=/Volumes/OpenApps/sw
option.

> Dir.open(ARGV[1])
> 
> is getting error when the directory passed with ARGV[1] doesn't exist:
> 
> /Users/gjin/code/util/ruby/IP/myTest.rb:8:in `open': No such file or 
> directory - /Volumes/users/gjin/cisco/passthru/decoded/qqq 
> (Errno::ENOENT)
>          from /Users/gjin/code/util/ruby/IP/myTest.rb:8

Definitely normal.

> Dir.open is supposed to create a new directory if it doesn't exist.

No.  Dir.open just accesses the existing directory.  Use
Dir.mkdir to create a new directory.

-- 
Nobu Nakada