From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-02-19T06:26:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing Ruby on Linux - Error

On 2/18/07, Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.

Right. It's called build-essential.