From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-11-13T23:13:23+09:00
Subject: Re: how to install ruby in home folder ?.

Pokkai Dokkai wrote:
> thanks for your reply.
> 
> i am using linux ubuntu 7.04.
> how to install all "development tools"? (without root permission)
> actually i am a student and working in a Linux Server ,i don't have 
> "root" access

You will need to convince your system administrators to help you. See below.

> 
> this is my "config.log" file contents in 
> "/home/username/packages/ruby-1.8.6"
> ================================================================================
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> It was created by configure, which was
> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was
> 
>   $ ./configure --prefix=/home/thani/ruby
> 
> ## --------- ##
> ## Platform. ##
> ## --------- ##
> 
> hostname = sumi-desktop
> uname -m = i686
> uname -r = 2.6.20-15-generic
> uname -s = Linux
> uname -v = #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007
> 
> /usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
> /bin/uname -X     = unknown
> 
> /bin/arch              = i686
> /usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
> /usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
> /usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
> /bin/machine           = unknown
> /usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
> /bin/universe          = unknown
> 
> PATH: /home/thani/packages/jruby/bin
> PATH: /home/thani/packages/jdk1.6.0/bin
> PATH: /usr/local/sbin
> PATH: /usr/local/bin
> PATH: /usr/sbin
> PATH: /usr/bin
> PATH: /sbin
> PATH: /bin
> PATH: /usr/games
> 
> 
> ## ----------- ##
> ## Core tests. ##
> ## ----------- ##
> 
> configure:1892: checking build system type
> configure:1910: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> configure:1932: checking host system type
> configure:1947: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> configure:1969: checking target system type
> configure:1984: result: i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
> configure:2245: checking for gcc
> configure:2261: found /usr/bin/gcc
> configure:2272: result: gcc
> configure:2510: checking for C compiler version
> configure:2517: gcc --version >&5
> gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is 
> NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
> PURPOSE.
> 
> configure:2520: $? = 0
> configure:2527: gcc -v >&5
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: i486-linux-gnu
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v 
> --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr 
> --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib 
> --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls 
> --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu 
> --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release 
> i486-linux-gnu
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)
> configure:2530: $? = 0
> configure:2537: gcc -V >&5
> gcc: '-V' option must have argument
> configure:2540: $? = 1
> configure:2563: checking for C compiler default output file name
> configure:2590: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

The compiler and loader "gcc" and "ld" appear to be installed and 
operating, but "crt1.o" is missing. This is a run time library. It 
*should* be on the system. You will need to have the system 
administrators help you.