On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Andrei Thorp <gar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Rich Lane <rl...@club.cc.cmu.edu> wrote: >> Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of Mon Jan 17 17:03:23 -0500 2011: >>> There also seem to be huge problems building and installing sup 0.12, >>> have a look here to get an idea how much frustration it already caused: >>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26439 >> >> I use Arch myself so I'm surprised there's been so much trouble >> packaging for it. Does gettext need to be a gem dependency? I've >> reconsidered the ncurses mess and master now requires ncursesw. I'm not >> convinced an Arch package should be using xapian-full - I only made that >> gem because I wanted the install process to be as simple as "gem install >> sup". The normal Arch Xapian package should work fine. > > Hey there Rich. I'm the package maintainer there and have certainly > had a never-ending cascade of trouble packaging it. Stuff ranging from > dire lack of aur packages for the dependencies (which prompted me to > write a system to automatically create them) to broken dependencies to > massive Sup errors in the upgrade to Ruby 1.9. > > Anyway, I still can't get it to run even with 0.12.1. Here's the > general situation (reposted partially from my comments there): > > * use ruby-xapian-full > * need gettext to be a gem and not a regular install... -- pacman -Rd > your ruby-gettext and sudo gem install ruby-gettext (STILL A PROBLEM, > SHOULD TALK TO THE MAINTAINER OF THAT PACKAGE) > * gem install sup: > - Won't install in local mode (i.e. into your ~), fyi (not that I care a lot) > - Still attempts to build ncurses (which fails)? Why's that? If I > override and install it without dependencies it seems to use ncursesw > happily enough. > * The new package throws up this runtime error without a .sup directory: > > --- RuntimeError from thread: main > can't modify frozen string > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/account.rb:54:in > `force_encoding' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/account.rb:54:in > `block in add_account' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/account.rb:54:in `each' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/account.rb:54:in > `add_account' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/account.rb:38:in `initialize' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/util.rb:613:in `new' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/util.rb:613:in `init' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup.rb:164:in `start' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup:153:in `<module:Redwood>' > /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup:69:in `<top (required)>' > /usr/bin/sup:19:in `load' > /usr/bin/sup:19:in `<main>' > > The above I've seen to be bug 98 on the bugtracker... but for whatever > reason, the bugtracker has been down for a week or two on my end. > > What xapian package do you recommend using? Maybe that's the source of > my problems.
It also likes to indulge in this error on occasion: /usr/bin/ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ncursesw-1.2.4.1/lib/ncursesw_bin.so: undefined symbol: STR2CSTR _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
