From: Paul Sherwood <paul.sherwood@...>
Date: 2013-02-24T21:54:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:52816] Re: What's the *right* way to build Ruby from source on a Linux system that doesn't yet have Ruby?

On 23/02/2013 21:40, Paul Sherwood wrote:
>> On 23/02/2013 13:16, Luis Lavena wrote:
>>> To build without a base ruby, you need to use either the nightly
>>> snapshots or the released .tar.gz packages (at this time rc1 and rc2
>>> for 2.0), those packages do not require a previous Ruby to be
>>> installed.
>>>
>>> I haven't done this in years, but should be accurate. If not, that
>>> might indicate a bug in the packaging process.
> 
> Re-reading Luis' email he recommended using nightly snapshots rather
> than stable. I've tried that, but get the same error result. It seems

And for completeness, I've tried the ruby-2.0.0-p0.tar.gz, which also
fails. So is this actually a bug?