From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-08-10T06:41:27+09:00
Subject: Re: irb and 1.8.0

Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> I just did a fresh install from a freshly built 1.8.0 source tree.
> 
> $ head /usr/local/bin/irb
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby-1.8.0
> #
> #   irb.rb - intaractive ruby
> #       $Release Version: 0.7.3 $
> #       $Revision: 1.2 $
> #       $Date: 2002/11/19 02:00:18 $
> #       by Keiju ISHITSUKA(keiju@ishitsuka.com)
> #
> $ /usr/local/bin/irb
> Version irb 0.9(02/07/03) is old.
> 
> So maybe something is corrupted in the lib files that irb requires?

Nope. I deleted all of /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8, and started from scratch 
from the 1.8 tarball. No build errors. Same irb message.