gem remap problem

[David Sastre Medina]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:02:30AM +0200, Neusbeer wrote:
> Since a few weeks when I try to install a gem I get a remap error.
> I tried rebasing with
> ash
> /bin/rebaseall -v
> 
> but nothing works :(
> 
> I get the following error:
> example-cut:
> 
> gem install pcaprub
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>     190 [main] ruby 3172 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap
> zlib.so to same address as parent (04950000) - try running rebaseall
>      57 [main] ruby 2784 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap
> Win32API.so to same address as parent (048F0000) - try running
> rebase
> all
>       3 [main] ruby 3052 child_info_fork::abort: unable to remap
> zlib.so to same address as parent (04950000) - try running rebaseall
> ERROR:  Interrupted
> 
> 
> It appears only with zlib and win32api.

Since you don't specify which cygwin version are you using, the first
suggestion would be to update to the latest, or even try a snapshot
from http://cygwin.com/snapshots.
There have been many and significant improvements in this area, so
that might help.
If that is not the case, everybody here will want to take a look at
the standard problem report:

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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