lang/ruby18 fails with [BUG] error

Steve Wills swills at FreeBSD.org
Wed May 16 17:50:53 UTC 2012


> Hi,
> Im trying to build lang/ruby18 on freebsd-head but Im receiving an error
> ./lib/fileutils.rb:1430: [BUG] unexpected local variable
> ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [amd-freebsd10]
>
> *** [./.rbconfig.time] Signal 6
>
> System is currently running r235439M userland built with WITH_CLANG_IS_CC
>

Ruby 1.8.x is well known not to work with clang and this probably won't be
fixed. Most of the Ruby effort is going towards 1.9.x now. If you really
wish to use clang, you should try ruby 1.9. If you need ruby 1.8.x, you
should switch back to gcc.

Steve




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