Bug #1178: circular dependency on missing ffi http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1178 Author: Fred Obermann Status: Open, Priority: High Category: lib, Target version: 1.9.1 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux] On Linux version 2.6.27.10-desktop-1mnb (qateam / titan.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.3.2 (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 10:49:40 EST 2009, I downloaded, configured, made, and installed ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux] I run gem install and I get this: ERROR: While executing gem ... (NameError) uninitialized constant Zlib::FFI Now theoretically I should be able to download and install ffi with 'gem install ffi', but gem is broken without ffi ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org