fxruby users - Jul 2006 - fxruby install problem?

I''m running the Ruby stable snapshot. It reports
1.8.5.

I dl''d fox 1.6.6 and did:

   ./configure --with-scintilla
   make
   make install

Then I did

   gem install fxruby

and picked 1.6 (ruby)

It finally said:


   make install
   make: Nothing to be done for `install''.

   make clean
   Successfully installed fxruby-1.6.0
   Installing ri documentation for fxruby-1.6.0...
   Installing RDoc documentation for fxruby-1.6.0...

Everything looked OK until the suspicious-looking
"Nothing to be done."

Now I can''t do a require of fox16. It gives me
an error:

   [hal at localhost ch19]$ irb
   irb(main):001:0> require ''fox16''
   LoadError: no such file to load -- fox16
           from
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
   `gem_original_require''
           from
   /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
   `require''
           from (irb):1


Where do I start debugging this?


Thanks,
Hal

On Jul 11, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:
> I''m running the Ruby stable snapshot. It reports
> 1.8.5.
>
> I dl''d fox 1.6.6 and did:
>
>    ./configure --with-scintilla
>    make
>    make install
Quick side note: The "--with-scintilla" option doesn''t mean
anything
to FOX. He doesn''t know anything about FXScintilla. You can safely  
leave that bit off in the future.
> Then I did
>
>    gem install fxruby
>
> and picked 1.6 (ruby)
>
> It finally said:
>
>    make install
>    make: Nothing to be done for `install''.
>
>    make clean
>    Successfully installed fxruby-1.6.0
>    Installing ri documentation for fxruby-1.6.0...
>    Installing RDoc documentation for fxruby-1.6.0...
>
> Everything looked OK until the suspicious-looking
> "Nothing to be done."
>
> Now I can''t do a require of fox16...
This is a known bug in RubyGems 0.9.0; see:

	http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=4948&group_id=126&atid=575

a workaround is to use the "gem env" command to identify your Gems  
installation directory (usually something like /usr/local/lib/ruby/ 
gems/1.8) and switch to the "gems/fxruby-1.6.0/ext/fox16" directory  
underneath that:

	cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.0/ext/fox16

and then type:

	make

Note that depending on permissions, you may need to be logged in as  
root to do that. It will recompile the extension module and after  
that you should be in good shape.

On Jul 12, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Hal Fulton wrote:
> OK, that worked. But apparently FreeRIDE needs fox 1.2?
That may be true...
> Here''s the tail end of my "gem install fxruby" where I
> tried to get a 1.2 -- what now? (That make.out is empty,
> by the way.)
>
>  26. fxruby 1.2.1 (ruby)
>  27. fxruby 1.2.1 (mswin32)
>  28. Cancel installation
> > 26
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Do you have FOX 1.2 installed (as well as a version of FXScintilla  
built against that build of FOX 1.2)? Also, note that the latest  
version of FXRuby 1.2 is version 1.2.6; when I tried to install it  
via RubyGems, it came up as option #17 (but I''m not sure how stable  
that ordering is).

As a side note: While I''m sympathetic to the fact that FreeRIDE (and  
perhaps other apps) are still based on FXRuby 1.2, the fact is that  
that version''s a couple of "generations" old now.
I''m definitely not
making bug fixes or otherwise developing that series anymore. I''m not  
sure what it would take to get the FreeRIDErs to upgrade to the  
latest FXRuby; I''m guessing that they have just about as much free  
time as I do. ;)