From: Amit Rao <amitraok@...>
Date: 2004-11-17T20:13:34+09:00
Subject: [newbie] install problem

I am trying to install ruby on mingw32 (on XP) ...
it worked fine for (or at least did not give me any errors) the
initial few steps.The make files were generated and the test succeded
as well.

but when i tried "make install" i get the following error

$ make install
./miniruby.exe ./instruby.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags="-
--unix" --make-flags=" --unix" --mantype="man"
mkdir -p -m 755 //home/user/bin //home/user/lib
//home/user/lib/ruby/1.8 //home/user/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-mingw32
//home/user/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
//home/user/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-msvcrt
D:/msys/1.0/home/user/ruby-1.8.2/lib/fileutils.rb:196:in `mkdir':
Invalid argument - // (Errno::EINVAL)
       from D:/msys/1.0/home/user/ruby-1.8.2/lib/fileutils.rb:196:in `makedirs'
       from D:/msys/1.0/home/user/ruby-1.8.2/lib/fileutils.rb:194:in
`reverse_each'
       from D:/msys/1.0/home/user/ruby-1.8.2/lib/fileutils.rb:194:in `makedirs'
       from D:/msys/1.0/home/user/ruby-1.8.2/lib/fileutils.rb:180:in `each'
       from D:/msys/1.0/home/user/ruby-1.8.2/lib/fileutils.rb:180:in `makedirs'
       from D:/msys/1.0/home/user/ruby-1.8.2/lib/fileutils.rb:959:in `makedirs'
       from ./instruby.rb:71:in `makedirs'
       from ./instruby.rb:99
make: *** [install-nodoc] Error 1

What could i be missing???

Thanks,
Amit