From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-10-20T05:36:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in Yaml.rb WAS: [Re: Bug In Ruby 1.8.0 Stops Slider]

why the lucky stiff wrote:
> Jason Dumler (jason@lizardbones.com) wrote:
> 
>>Below is a transcript of an email between myself and the developer for 
>>slider.  Seems when you try to load the "yaml.rb" library, and you have 
>>not installed at least the "Syck" package, loading yaml.rb fails because 
>>it doesn't look like the internal yaml package for ruby is there.
>>
> 
> 
> You're using Ruby 1.8.0?  Both yaml.rb and syck should come
> with Ruby 1.8.0.  Are you using a packaging system to install?  Perhaps
> the RPMs, debs, whatever are missing syck.so.

This may be slightly OT, but I had a similar experience
recently.

Was trying to compile on a system which (beyond my control)
had gcc 2.91 rather than a later one.

It choked on openssl with compile errors. That meant that
anything alphabetically later (such as syck) didn't get
built.

I didn't realize this immediately. I tried to run an app
that used yaml and got the same error he refers to.

It's a bit of an artifact, isn't it? It tests whether syck
is there, and if not, tries to load yaml/parser (which is
not there either).

Hal