Ruby 1.8.4 RDoc Seg fault

Ruby
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Got this today:

with_reader.rb: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:384:
[BUG] Segmentation fault

T.

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On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:46 PM, TRANS wrote:

Got this today:

with_reader.rb: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:384:
[BUG] Segmentation fault

Wow… that is really unhelpful. Do you at least have a repro?

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On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Ryan D. wrote:

On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:46 PM, TRANS wrote:

Got this today:

with_reader.rb: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/parsers/parse_rb.rb:384:
[BUG] Segmentation fault

Wow… that is really unhelpful. Do you at least have a repro?

Here’s one, but from a different lineno than the original poster (and
probably a different OS):

ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.6.0]

Abort trap

No core, alas.

Interestingly, this didn’t fail after an uninstall. Instead, I got:

$ ~ 1005 $ sudo gem install zentest
Attempting local installation of ‘zentest’
Local gem file not found: zentest*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘zentest’
Successfully installed ZenTest-3.2.0
Installing RDoc documentation for ZenTest-3.2.0…
ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError)
can’t dup Fixnum

I’ve been trying other examples of gem installation (for this book
I’m writing), and getting a lot of such errors:

$ ~/writing/BMSFT/Book 959 $ sudo gem install watir
[…]
Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.4.1…
[…]
RDoc failure in readme.rb at or around line 63 column 3
[…]
ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError)
can’t convert Fixnum into String

$ /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/doc/watir-1.4.1/rdoc 986 $ sudo gem
install rake
[…]
RDoc failure in lib/rake.rb at or around line 42 column 10
[…]
ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError)
can’t convert Fixnum into String

To make it worse, another zentest install/uninstall worked:

$ ~/writing/BMSFT/Book 1012 $ sudo gem install zentest
Attempting local installation of ‘zentest’
Local gem file not found: zentest*.gem
Attempting remote installation of ‘zentest’
Successfully installed ZenTest-3.2.0
Installing RDoc documentation for ZenTest-3.2.0…

What’s up with that?

Brian M., independent consultant
Mostly on agile methods with a testing slant
www.exampler.com, www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog

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For what it’s worth, I’ve had trouble all day when rubygems runs rdoc
on gems. I blew away 1.8.4 and reverted to the 1.8.2 that comes with
OSX Tiger.

With 1.8.4, I got:

Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1…
RDoc failure in lib/rake.rb at or around line 42 column 10
The internal error was:

ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError)
can’t convert Fixnum into String

Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1…
ERROR: While executing gem … (NoMethodError)
undefined method `text’ for -517611318:Fixnum

Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.7.1…
Error in template: private method `gsub!’ called for -517611318:Fixnum
Original line: -517611318

On 1.8.2, all went well. Rdoc generation also worked for zentest and
watir, which had both failed before. The Zentest errors I gave
earlier in this thread. The watir error was this:

Installing RDoc documentation for watir-1.4.1…
RDoc failure in readme.rb at or around line 63 column 3
The internal error was:

ERROR: While executing gem … (TypeError)
can’t convert Fixnum into String

Brian M., independent consultant
Mostly on agile methods with a testing slant
www.exampler.com, www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog

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On Apr 26, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Brian M. wrote:

For what it’s worth, I’ve had trouble all day when rubygems runs
rdoc on gems. I blew away 1.8.4 and reverted to the 1.8.2 that
comes with OSX Tiger.

This is a bug in ruby where VALUEs collide exacerbated by GCC4 on
PPC. We’ve partially fixed it on the 1.8 branch in CVS, but it is
still there (just a lot less–feels like 60-80% less). I’ve found
that rdoc seems to push it more. It probably generates a lot more
symbols than most programs. I’ve found that if you keep running the
rdoc command, it’ll eventually generate everything and be fine. Not
good, I know, but better than rolling back to stock 1.8.2 in many
situations.