From: Lloyd Zusman Date: 2007-02-25T08:31:01+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby hangs during "make check" in CentOS4? "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes: > Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >> But then, when I do "make check", the test run hangs forever after a few >> hundred characters (mostly dots) print out. >> >> [ ... ] >> > You may have to do "make install" before "make check". Did you do it > that way? No, I didn't. I have always thought that the autoconf convention is to perform "make check" first, and to use its result to decide whether to then do the "make install". It seems incorrect to install the software and then check it. If "make check" fails miserably, it will be a big headache to then try to uninstall everything. But I took a chance, and I did do the "make install" after all. Then, I did a "make check", and it hung in exactly the same manner as before. Luckily, ruby seems to work for all of my usual scripts, but I don't know whether there might be something fundamentally wrong which will bite me later. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com God bless you.