Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Panther (more?)

[FUJIMOTO H. <hi...@im...>]

At Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:33:35 +1100,
Charles Miller wrote:
> On 12/11/2003, at 10:49 AM, Kevin Bullock wrote:
> > I just subscribed, so I don't know if this has been discussed further, 
> > but I've been attempting to get RubyCocoa working on Panther, using 
> > the included ruby installation (1.6.8, libruby and headers are 
> > included, unlike in Jaguar). Despite applying the patch 
> > (http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/build.en.html#label:19), I 
> > still get a segfault during the configure process. Here's a 
> > transcript:
> 
> I had the same problem. The weird thing was that the segfault always 
> occurred during processing of the _second_ file in post-config.rb, no 
> matter which order I told it to process the files in.
> 
> Running in gdb, I found the following backtrace: the problem seemed to 
> be happening in the garbage collector somewhere.
> 
> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> 0x00019918 in rb_gc_mark ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00019918 in rb_gc_mark ()
> #1  0x00019f7c in rb_gc_mark ()
> #2  0x0001973c in rb_source_filename ()
> #3  0x0001a86c in rb_gc ()
> #4  0x000194b8 in rb_newobj ()
> 
> When I edited post-config.rb and put a call to "GC.start" right 
> underneath "load 'tool/create-appkit-and-foundation.rb'", the config 
> worked.

I'm going to apply this modification into cvs repository of rubycocoa.
Thank you for useful info.
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FUJIMOTO Hisakuni