fxruby users - Feb 2005 - Does anyone have access to an x86-64 box?

All,

Someone has submitted a bug report that seems to be specific to the 
x86-64 platform (running Ubuntu Linux 4.10). (He reports that the code 
works fine under x86 Linux, as expected.)

I don''t have access to an x86-64 platform for debugging or testing this
problem. Can anyone volunteer to help out? The problem seems to occur 
up-front, when trying to do:

	require ''fox12''

so the first step would be to try to figure out where in the code it''s 
hanging. Not sure how complicated things would get past that point.

Thanks in advance,

Lyle

On Feb 26, 2005, at 9:29 PM, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Someone has submitted a bug report that seems to be specific to the  
> x86-64 platform (running Ubuntu Linux 4.10).
Forgot to mention: the bug report is here:

      
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/? 
func=detail&aid=1540&group_id=300&atid=1223

Lyle

I have an x86-64 machine at work I can do some with, and I couldn''t
get the fxruby gem to install.
I''ve never tried to use fxruby, I suspect the problem is something
really obvious that the installer isn''t giving a clear error message
about.

[root@datastor rubygems-0.8.6]# gem install fxruby
Config file /root/.gemrc does not exist
Attempting local installation of ''fxruby''
Local gem file not found: fxruby*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ''fxruby''
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Select which gem to install for your platform (x86_64-linux)
 1. fxruby 1.2.5 (mswin32)
 2. fxruby 1.2.5 (ruby)
 3. fxruby 1.2.4 (ruby)
 4. fxruby 1.2.4 (mswin32)
 5. fxruby 1.2.3 (mswin32)
 6. fxruby 1.2.3 (ruby)
 7. fxruby 1.2.2 (mswin32)
 8. fxruby 1.2.2 (ruby)
 9. fxruby 1.2.1 (ruby)
 10. fxruby 1.2.1 (mswin32)
 11. Cancel installation
> 2
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
can''t find header files for ruby.
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.2.5 for inspection.
  ruby extconf.rb install fxruby\n

Results logged to
/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.2.5/ext/fox12/gem_make.out




On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:48:55 -0600, Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net>
wrote:
> 
> > Someone has submitted a bug report that seems to be specific to the
> > x86-64 platform (running Ubuntu Linux 4.10).
> 
> Forgot to mention: the bug report is here:
> 
>
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1540&group_id=300&atid=1223
> 
> Lyle
> 
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On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Shad Sterling wrote:
> I have an x86-64 machine at work I can do some with, and I
couldn''t
> get the fxruby gem to install.
<snip>
> Results logged to
> /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.2.5/ext/fox12/gem_make.out
Could you maybe send me this file (off list)? I suppose it will tell us 
what went wrong.

For what it''s worth, the original bug report (referred to in my 
previous e-mail) seems to indicate that the reporter got the software 
built and installed, but that it just hangs up when he tries to 
''require'' it into Ruby. So we should at least be able to get
that far.
;)

On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Shad Sterling wrote:
> I have an x86-64 machine at work I can do some with, and I
couldn''t
> get the fxruby gem to install.
> I''ve never tried to use fxruby, I suspect the problem is something
> really obvious that the installer isn''t giving a clear error
message
> about.
>
> [root@datastor rubygems-0.8.6]# gem install fxruby
<snip>
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> can''t find header files for ruby.
<snip>

Well, I should have looked at that more closely: "can''t find
header
files for ruby". So yes, something appears to be broken in your Ruby 
installation before we even get around to FXRuby...

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:08:25 -0600, Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net>
wrote:
> 
> On Mar 2, 2005, at 5:53 PM, Shad Sterling wrote:
> 
> > I have an x86-64 machine at work I can do some with, and I
couldn''t
> > get the fxruby gem to install.
> > I''ve never tried to use fxruby, I suspect the problem is
something
> > really obvious that the installer isn''t giving a clear error
message
> > about.
> >
> > [root@datastor rubygems-0.8.6]# gem install fxruby
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> > can''t find header files for ruby.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Well, I should have looked at that more closely: "can''t find
header
> files for ruby". So yes, something appears to be broken in your Ruby
> installation before we even get around to FXRuby...
> 
> 

I''m running PLD, and have installed ruby-1.8.2-2.20040906.4.  I looked
for a ruby-libs package (in poldek; using primarially
ftp://ftp.amd64.ac.pld-linux.org/dists/ac/PLD/amd64/PLD/RPMS/ ), and
failed to find one.  I thought the package ruby-static might have
them, but apparently not.

What am I missing here, to get the ruby headers?


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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:29:07 -0500, Shad Sterling <polyergic@gmail.com>
wrote :
> I''m running PLD, and have installed ruby-1.8.2-2.20040906.4.  I
looked
> for a ruby-libs package (in poldek; using primarially
> ftp://ftp.amd64.ac.pld-linux.org/dists/ac/PLD/amd64/PLD/RPMS/ ), and
> failed to find one.  I thought the package ruby-static might have
> them, but apparently not.
> 
> What am I missing here, to get the ruby headers?
I''m having trouble finding a list of the packages available for PLD
Linux
(I''m just not all that familiar with that distro), but for a lot of
distros
the header files are off in a separate package with a name like
"ruby-devel"
or the like. There''s often a distinction between the basic runtime
support
package (i.e. the interpreter and standard libraries -- just what you need
to run Ruby programs) and the developer support package (which would
additionally include the header files).

Is there maybe a way to search through PLD''s packages for the one that
contains the file "ruby.h"? That might be a way to pin it down.

On 14 Mar 2005 22:10:19 -0000, lyle@knology.net <lyle@knology.net>
wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:29:07 -0500, Shad Sterling
<polyergic@gmail.com> wrote :
> 
> > I''m running PLD, and have installed ruby-1.8.2-2.20040906.4. 
I looked
> > for a ruby-libs package (in poldek; using primarially
> > ftp://ftp.amd64.ac.pld-linux.org/dists/ac/PLD/amd64/PLD/RPMS/ ), and
> > failed to find one.  I thought the package ruby-static might have
> > them, but apparently not.
> >
> > What am I missing here, to get the ruby headers?
> 
> I''m having trouble finding a list of the packages available for
PLD Linux
> (I''m just not all that familiar with that distro), but for a lot
of distros
> the header files are off in a separate package with a name like
"ruby-devel"
> or the like. There''s often a distinction between the basic runtime
support
> package (i.e. the interpreter and standard libraries -- just what you need
> to run Ruby programs) and the developer support package (which would
> additionally include the header files).
> 
> Is there maybe a way to search through PLD''s packages for the one
that
> contains the file "ruby.h"? That might be a way to pin it down.
> 
Duh.  The PLD package ruby-devel has the headers.  I don''t think of
installing as a developer task, so I didn''t think of looking at the
developer packages.  (Nevermind that fxruby is more or less a
developer tool...)

It turns out that I can''t use the gem to run that file anyway, I had
to build fxruby from source, which was easy enough except that I
didn''t see a list anywhere of which -devel packages need to be
installed.  (Looks like ruby, fox, and glibc.)

Now that I have everything installed, I can run the file, and it exits
cleanly after almost .5s.  Whatever the problem is, it appears to not
occur under PLD.


 - Shad



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