From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-07-21T03:33:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18195] Re: Newbie. Sinking fast. Please help.

Matt wrote:
> I bought Programming Ruby a number of months back and finally have an opportunity to try out Ruby. However, I can't get it to build. Actually, that's not quite accurate. It builds fine. It won't pass 'make test'.
> 
> I am building on FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE and get the following output during a make test of 1.6.4:
> 
> gcc -O6 -rdynamic main.o dmyext.o libruby.a -lcrypt -lxpg4 -lm   -o miniruby
> not ok system 7 -- /home/lewellyn/ruby-1.6.4/sample/test.rb:985
> test failed
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> $


Ruby is included in FreeBSD's ports collection. Thus, you don't have to build it yourself.
But, if you want to build it yourself have a look at the patch directory. Maybe something
interesting in there.


Regards,

  Michael 

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