From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2003-10-29T06:56:55+09:00
Subject: Re: How to include zip in a program.

On Tue 28 Oct 2003 at 05:51:34 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> 
> I think that my Ruby is broken.  I did compile it from source, but I'm 
> missing the zlib module.
> 
> $ ruby -v 
> ruby 1.8.0 (2002-12-24) [sparc-solaris2.8]
> $ 
> $ ruby -e " require 'zlib' "
> -e:1:in `require': No such file to load -- zlib (LoadError)
> $
> $ ls -R lib/ruby/ | grep zlib
> $
> 
> I've tried compiling the ruby-zlib module from RAA but without success 
> (see my earlier post).
> 
> Can anyone see anything I'm doing wrong?  I don't recall any particular 
> errors when I compiled ruby 1.8.0.

Look at the date of your version: 2002-12-24. It's an ancient copy, not
the official 1.8.0 release.

Ian
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