From: "Schüle Daniel" Date: 2006-07-29T22:20:20+09:00 Subject: build error on cygwin I am trying to install ruby1.8.4 ./configure --prefix=/pool/installed2 --disable-nls make ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/ext/enumerator' compiling etc /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:174:in `initialize': Permission denie d - mkmftmp1.log (Errno::EACCES) from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:174:in `open' from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:205:in `postpone' from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:178:in `open' from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:201:in `postpone' from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:541:in `checking_for' from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:669:in `have_type' from ../.././ext/etc/extconf.rb:27 from ./ext/extmk.rb:138:in `extmake' from ./ext/extmk.rb:397 from ./ext/extmk.rb:396 make: *** [all] Error 1 does someone know what may be going wrong? Thanks in advance -- Daniel