Bug #1178: circular dependency on missing ffi

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: 1.9.1
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux]

[sinobra (Fred Obermann)]

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On Linux version 2.6.27.10-desktop-1mnb ([e-mail]) (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
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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

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I couldn't reproduce it, with or without sudo.

$ gem19 install ffi
WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1 and
/usr/bin aren't both writable.
WARNING: You don't have /home/nobu/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/bin in your PATH,
gem executables will not run.
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed ffi-0.2.0
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for ffi-0.2.0...
Updating class cache with 1311 classes...
Installing RDoc documentation for ffi-0.2.0...

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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

• Priority changed from 5 to 3

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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Rejected

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