At Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:08:06 +0900,
Mark Wilson wrote:
> I have tried to install RubyCocoa and received the following error:
> 
> bash-2.05a$ ruby install.rb config
> install.rb: entering config phase...
> create ext/rubycocoa/extconf.rb
(snip)
> ---> framework
> create  
> /Users/markwils/Desktop/Ruby/tarballs/rubycocoa-0.4.0/framework/src/ 
> objc/osx_ruby.h ...
> /Users/markwils/Desktop/Ruby/tarballs/rubycocoa-0.4.0/framework/post- 
> config.rb:15: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [powerpc-darwin6.3]
> Abort trap
> 
> As you can see from the above, I am using ruby 1.6.8.  I am also using  
> 10.2.3 and the December developer tools.  If anyone has any insight on  
> this, I would appreciate the help.  Thank you.

I saw a same error. The error occur in rb_gc_mark() of ruby 1.6.8.
It seem that the error doesn't occur in ruby 1.6.7 and 1.8pre.  I
cannot figure out why, but a following patch will fix the bug.

  $ cd {rubycocoa-0.4 source directory}
  $ patch -p0 < following-patch

thanks,
--
FUJIMOTO Hisakuni

Index: framework/post-config.rb
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/rubycocoa/src/framework/post-config.rb,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -b -u -r1.4 post-config.rb
--- framework/post-config.rb	19 Dec 2002 08:41:50 -0000	1.4
+++ framework/post-config.rb	11 Jan 2003 14:02:17 -0000
@@ -12,10 +12,9 @@
   $stderr.puts "create #{File.expand_path(dst_fname)} ..."
   File.open(dst_fname, 'w') do |dstfile|
     IO.foreach(src_path) do |line|
-      line = line.gsub( /\bID\b/, 'RB_ID' )
-      line = line.gsub( /\bT_DATA\b/, 'RB_T_DATA' )
-      line = line.gsub( /\bintern.h\b/, "#{new_filename_prefix}intern.h" )
-      dstfile.puts line
+      line.gsub!( /\b(ID|T_DATA)\b/, 'RB_\1' )
+      line.gsub!( /\bintern\.h\b/, "#{new_filename_prefix}intern.h" )
+      dstfile.puts( line )
     end
   end
 end