QNX install problem

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This is with ruby-1.7.3-2002.12.21.

The make process seems to be ok (except for some warnings about a world
writable dir), and the ruby executable runs from the make dir. But there
are problems with ‘make test’ and ‘make install’.

make test

./rubytest.rb:35: warning: Insecure world writable dir /proc/boot, mode
040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1156: warning: Insecure world
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1163: warning: Insecure world
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1164: warning: Insecure world
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1171: warning: Insecure world
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1181: warning: Insecure world
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
/home/vjoel/src/ruby/sample/test.rb:1182: warning: Insecure world
writable dir /
proc/boot, mode 040777
test failed
make: *** [test] Error 1

make install fails with:

./instruby.rb:114: private method sub' called for nil (NoMethodError) from ./instruby.rb:113:inopen’
from ./instruby.rb:113
from ./instruby.rb:101:in `each’
from ./instruby.rb:101
make: *** [install] Error 1

The nil value comes from an empty file. This seems to be caused by the
following code in syscopy in ftools.rb:

 begin
   while true
to.syswrite from.sysread(BUFSIZE)
   end
 rescue EOFError
   ret = true
 rescue => e   # I added the "=> e"
   p e         # I added this line
   ret = false
 ensure
   to.close
   from.close
 end

The exception displayed by the line I added is:

#<IOError: sysread for buffered IO>

How do I get around this?

TIA.

2

BTW, there is no problem with syscopy in the ruby-1.6.7 .qpk binary
installation. But I’d like to have 1.7.3, and when I build it from
source I get the error.