From: Lloyd Zusman Date: 2007-02-25T22:55:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby hangs during "make check" in CentOS4? "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes: > Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes: >> >> [ ... ] >> >>> 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". [ ... ] >> > Yeah ... that's the way it's supposed to work -- check first, then > install. But I usually make a new home in /opt for testing stuff anyhow, > rather than letting it default into /usr/local. And I have had instances > where things broke in "make check" that didn't break after "make > install" because of some path issues. I'll take this as encouragement to > hunt them down and document them. :) Yes, I see how that approach can be helpful. I just usually do the following: if "make check" fails, don't even try the install. I've never seen a case where the check succeeded and the software blew up after installation ... although I know that this certainly could happen, and your procedure would catch this problem. In any case, this time I got the same error during the "make check" both before and after the installation. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com God bless you.