sup talk - Nov 2008 - LibC on OpenBSD

I had been still using an old version of sup for quite a while. It was either
0.5 or a dev version from between 0.5 and 0.6. I decided I actually needed to
update it for once.

I tried downloading the tgz (I never can get gem to do what I want) of 0.6 but
it didn''t seem to work. I gave up on 0.6 and tried the version from
git. Still problems.

When I ran it I got these errors:

$ ruby -I lib -w bin/sup 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/import.rb:29:in `initialize'': File not found
(RuntimeError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/import.rb:29:in `dlopen''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/import.rb:29:in `dlload''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/import.rb:27:in `each''
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/dl/import.rb:27:in `dlload''
        from ./lib/sup.rb:17
        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 bin/sup:9

Apparently it was breaking on loading LibC. I had no idea where LibC was
supposed to be coming from so I searched my computer for it and finally found it
called "libc.so.43.0"

I changed the "libc.so.6" part of lib/sup.rb:17 to
"libc.so.43.0".

Basically, I was wondering if I had to do all that. Oh, and it does work
perfectly fine now.
-- 
Blake Burkhart

Reformatted excerpts from Blake Burkhart''s message of
2008-11-15:
> I changed the "libc.so.6" part of lib/sup.rb:17 to
"libc.so.43.0".
Wow I REALLY don''t want to play this game. But it looks like we have
to,
in order to get wide characters working with ncurses:

What does
  ruby -rrbconfig -e ''puts Config::CONFIG["arch"]''
print on your system?
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

Excerpts from William Morgan''s message of Sat Nov 15 18:14:28 -0600
2008:
> What does
>   ruby -rrbconfig -e ''puts
Config::CONFIG["arch"]''
> print on your system?
Here''s the output:

$ ruby -rrbconfig -e ''puts Config::CONFIG["arch"]'' 
i386-openbsd4.3
-- 
Blake Burkhart

On 15.11.2008, Blake Burkhart wrote:
> Apparently it was breaking on loading LibC. I had no idea where LibC was
> supposed to be coming from so I searched my computer for it and finally
found
> it called "libc.so.43.0"
I _think_ (but I''m no freebsd expert!) you need to install compat6x
which will give you the libc.so.6 libs (and others). It may be that
they are just soft links anyway.

MArcus