weechat failing to load ruby.so after recent updates

[Todd Wasson]

Thanks, koobs, I reported the issue here:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231361

I didn't see how to add you as a watcher or CC you on the bug, sorry.
Thanks again for your help!


Todd

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 6:47 PM Kubilay Kocak <koobs at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 11/09/2018 1:36 am, Todd Wasson wrote:
> > Hi all, I recently restarted weechat for the first time in awhile (1-2
> > months), and now it can't load ruby.so because of:
> >
> > Error: unable to load plugin "/usr/local/lib/weechat/plugins/ruby.so"
> > /usr/local/lib/weechat/plugins/ruby.so: Undefined symbol "ruby_version"
> >
> > `strings /usr/local/lib/weechat/plugins/ruby.so` reveals that
> ruby_version
> > is in the file.  I first saw this with the binary pkg installation, but
> > I've rebuilt weechat from source from the ports tree and that didn't
> > resolve the problem.  I also updated to 11.2-RELEASE after I first saw
> > this, which also had no effect, incidentally.  ktrace revealed nothing
> > useful, and I'm not sure what I should look for with dtrace.
> >
> > Any thoughts?  I suspect this is more likely to be a FreeBSD-specific
> > problem than a general weechat problem, as I see no reports (other than a
> > random pastebin paste) of this anywhere online.  Any help would be
> > appreciated!
> >
> >
> > Todd
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> I can confirm the issue, also present on CURRENT using ports (so not
> specific to packages or freebsd versions), after updating to weechat 2.2
> (and ruby 2.4.4). Rebuilding both does not resolve the issue.
>
> Best course of action is to report the issue so that at least the issue
> is logged, and the maintainer (cc'd) can investigate:
>
> "irc/weechat: Fails to load ruby plugin after update to 2.2 (Undefined
> symbol "ruby_version)"
>
> Feel free to CC me on it.
>
> ./koobs
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