From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T06:04:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Ruby on Linux - Error

Centipeed wrote:
> I'm new to Linux, so it may well be that I'm missing some trivial.
>
> However, I have Ubuntu installed on my Laptop, and I downloaded the
> Source for Ruby (ruby-1.8.5-p12), copied it across to my laptop (My
> laptop does NOT have internet access, so I can't just apt-get,
> unfortunately), and tried the following:
>
> ./configure
>
> It starts working, then right after "checking for C compiler default
> ouput file name...", I get this:
>
> "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"
>
> Can anyone help me out with this one?
>
>   
I think Ubuntu doesn't install any developer tools by default. You need 
the GCC compiler, autoconf and friends, and the GNU binutils. Probably 
there's a package with everything you need, possibly called "developer 
tools" or something similar.