recent port of ruby18 segfaults

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 19 March 2004 12:01 pm, Brian Reichert wrote:
> Sometime in the last couple of days (I did a checkout after a CVSup
> Wed morning), the ruby18 port now dies on a sigsev:
>
>   cd ports/lang/ruby18
>   make deinstall
>   make reinstall
>   pkgdb -F
>   --->  Checking the package registry database
>   [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /annex/var/db/pkg ... -
> 541 packages found (-2 +1)
>   (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:467: [BUG]
> Segmentation fault
>   ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-freebsd4]
>
> Anyone else seeing this?  I haven't seen any scuttle on the lists...
>
> I _think_ this is ruby-1.8.1_2.  The makefile is dated:
>
> # $FreeBSD: ports/lang/ruby18/Makefile,v 1.73 2004/03/14 00:18:21
> kris Exp $
>
> Unfortunately, this hoses all of the ports managment tools, so I
> don't know how to convently unpeel this mess..

Do you have installed
ruby-1.8.1_2        An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2   Ruby interface to Berkeley DB revision 1.8x with 
full featu

and did you rebuild portupgrade after you installed them. There is a big 
blurb in /usr/ports/UPDATING

Kent



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