On Sun, 7 May 2006 Nuralanur / aol.com wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> when I install rb-gsl in cygwin using the ruby setup.rb config  command,
> I get many repeating errors, each of  the  following form:
>
>
> 78678783 [main] ruby 2536 C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\ruby.exe : *** fatal
> error: unable to remap
> C:\cygwin\usr\local\lib\ruby\1.8\i-386-cygwin\etc.so to same address as
> parent
> (0x2830000) != 0x2840000
> 65108726 [main] ruby 1440: child_copy: loaded dll child copy failed
> 0x28330000...0x2833170,  done 0, windows pid 5468565, Win32 error 5.
>
> These lines keep returning, with some differences in the windows pid  numbers
> and in the
> numbers before [main].
>
> What is going on here? What could be done to fix it ?

i think you've got more than one ruby on your system and/or have upgraded ruby
or ruby extensions in a way that was not correct.

   http://www.zope.org/Members/dgeorgieff/howto_zope_cvs_on_cygwin/

   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg01241.html

   http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde3/faq.php

   http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/rebase/rebase-2.4.2.README

in any case, this is purely a cygwin issue.  sorry i can't help more.

regards.

-a
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