From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-07-03T09:37:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem building Ruby from sources

On Jul 2, 2008, at 08:06 AM, Kurt Usen wrote:
> I am having a problem building Ruby from sources (checked out latest
> version with Subversion from repository). I tried it for Ubunty 8.04  
> and
> Cygwin. In both cases I got an error while running make:
>
> echo executable host ruby is required.  use --with-baseruby option.;
> false -Ks ./tool/insns2vm.rb --srcdir="." opt_sc.inc
> executable host ruby is required. use --with-baseruby option.
> make: *** [opt_sc.inc] Error 1
>
> What does it mean?

You don't have ruby installed, or it is not in your path.

If it is not in your path, use ./configure --with-baseruby (I think).

If it is not installed, try 1.8 before building 1.9.