Ruby 1.8 installation fails

[Sean McNeil]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 22:15 +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:51:37PM +0100, Snafoo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > installation of ruby 1.8.2 on FreeBSD 5.3 / amd64 fails at
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > [...]
> > ===>  Installing for ruby-1.8.2_2
> > ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> > ===>  Checking if lang/ruby18 already installed
> > ./miniruby ./instruby.rb --dest-dir=""  --make="make"  --mflags=" -j 3" 
> >  --make-flags=" ARCH=amd64 OPSYS=FreeBSD OSREL=5.3 OSVERSION=503001 
> > PORTOBJFORMAT=elf SYSTEMVERSION= -j 3" --mantype="doc"
> > mkdir -p -m 755 /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8 
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/amd64-freebsd5 /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/amd64-freebsd5
> > install -c -p -m 0755 ruby18 /usr/local/bin/ruby18
> > ./miniruby ./ext/extmk.rb --dest-dir=""  --make="make"  --mflags=" -j 3" 
> >  --make-flags=" ARCH=amd64 OPSYS=FreeBSD OSREL=5.3 OSVERSION=503001 
> > PORTOBJFORMAT=elf SYSTEMVERSION= -j 3" install
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > At this point miniruby consumes 100% CPU time and runs forever (OK, 
> > several hours until I finally gave up). Any tips what to do now?
> 
> Right, recent ruby update broke it on amd64, I hope maintainer will
> fix it soon.

This worked for me:
	pkg_delete ruby, portupgrade et al
	reinstall

Sean