From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T04:55:35+09:00
Subject: Re: compiling ruby on red hat linux

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Philip J. Mikal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having no luck compiling Ruby - getting the
> following error:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/local/src/ruby/ext/iconv'
> gcc -fPIC -g -O2  -I. -I../.. -I../../.
> -I../.././ext/iconv -DICONV_INPTR_CAST="(char **)"  -c
> iconv.c
> gcc323: **): No such file or directory
> iconv.c: In function `iconv_try':
> iconv.c:246: parse error before "inptr"
> make[1]: *** [iconv.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/local/src/ruby/ext/iconv'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Philip

   ~ > tar xvfz ruby.tgz
   ~ > cd ruby/
   ~ > export prefix=/full/path/to/where/you/want/to/install  # eg.  /usr/local/
   ~ > export LD_RUN_PATH=$prefix
   ~ > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$prefix
   ~ > ./configure --prefix=$prefix && make && sudo make install

hth.

-a
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