From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-07-30T01:21:18+09:00
Subject: Re: build error on cygwin

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Sch�le Daniel wrote:
>> 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)

Oops ... didn't see that. It looks like you don't have enough privileges 
to "install" software. You probably need to be what Windows calls a 
"Power User" or an "Administrator" to run this. Check with your IT folks 
if you aren't the Administrator of your system. Meanwhile, you can use 
the binary Ruby that comes with CygWin.


>>         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
>>
>>
> Do you just need Ruby on CygWin, or do you need to build it from 
> source? My copy of CygWin (I install the whole thing) has Ruby 1.8.4 
> as part of the distribution. I don't know why building Ruby from 
> source would break, though.
>