RUBYLIB="" causes load problems in 1.7.3

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Has this been fixed in more recent releases? I have 2002-10-30.

$ export RUBYLIB=""

It’s ok in 1.6.7:

$ ruby-1.6.7 -r ftools -e ‘p $:’
["", “/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6”,
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/i686-linux",
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby", “/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6”,
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/i686-linux", “.”]

But in 1.7.3…

$ ruby -r ftools -e 'p $:'
ruby: No such file to load – ftools (LoadError)

$ ruby -e ‘p $:’
["", “/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7”,
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7/i686-linux",
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby", “/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7”,
"/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7/i686-linux", “.”]

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Hi,

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In message “RUBYLIB=”" causes load problems in 1.7.3" on 02/11/20, Joel VanderWerf vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU writes:

Has this been fixed in more recent releases? I have 2002-10-30.

First, check where ftools for 1.7 is installed.

						matz.
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Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

Hi,

Has this been fixed in more recent releases? I have 2002-10-30.

First, check where ftools for 1.7 is installed.

  					matz.

It’s where it should be:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/ftools.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7/ftools.rb

If my $RUBYLIB is not the empty string, there is no problem.

$ export RUBYLIB=“.”
$ ruby -r ftools -e ‘p $:’
[“.”, “/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7/i686-linux”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby”, “/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7/i686-linux”, “.”]

This is not a problem for me, since I can just ‘unset RUBYLIB’, but it’s
a bit surprising.

···

In message “RUBYLIB=”" causes load problems in 1.7.3" > on 02/11/20, Joel VanderWerf vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU writes:

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Joel VanderWerf vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU writes:

First, check where ftools for 1.7 is installed.

  					matz.

It’s where it should be:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/ftools.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7/ftools.rb

If my $RUBYLIB is not the empty string, there is no problem.

$ export RUBYLIB=“.”
$ ruby -r ftools -e ‘p $:’
[“.”, “/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7/i686-linux”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby”, “/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7/i686-linux”, “.”]

This is not a problem for me, since I can just ‘unset RUBYLIB’, but it’s
a bit surprising.

Here is a patch for Ruby 1.7:

Index: file.c

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===================================================================
RCS file: /src/ruby/file.c,v
retrieving revision 1.114
diff -u -1 -p -r1.114 file.c
— file.c 29 Oct 2002 21:35:27 -0000 1.114
+++ file.c 21 Nov 2002 08:19:16 -0000
@@ -2478,3 +2478,3 @@ rb_find_file_ext(filep, ext)
SafeStringValue(str);

  • if (RSTRING(str)->len == 0) return 0;
  • if (RSTRING(str)->len == 0) continue;
    path = RSTRING(str)->ptr;

–
eban

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Hi,

In message “Re: RUBYLIB=”" causes load problems in 1.7.3"

It’s where it should be:

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/ftools.rb
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7/ftools.rb

If my $RUBYLIB is not the empty string, there is no problem.

$ export RUBYLIB=“.”
$ ruby -r ftools -e ‘p $:’
[“.”, “/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.7/i686-linux”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby”, “/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7”,
“/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.7/i686-linux”, “.”]

This is not a problem for me, since I can just ‘unset RUBYLIB’, but it’s
a bit surprising.

It was a bug.

— file.c 29 Oct 2002 21:35:27 -0000 1.114
+++ file.c 21 Nov 2002 08:41:51 -0000
@@ -2478,3 +2479,3 @@
SafeStringValue(str);

  • if (RSTRING(str)->len == 0) return 0;
  • if (RSTRING(str)->len == 0) continue;
    path = RSTRING(str)->ptr;