From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-07-20T09:53:54+09:00
Subject: Re: compile from source - how difficult?

Marc Heiler wrote:
>> It's not the _most_ straight forward build, but it's still 
>> pretty easy. 
> 
> On a belated note I still wonder if anyone has managed to
> compily ruby statically and made it work. When I dig into which
> extensions I want to add, it is openssl or something else that
> seems to "act up" :(

I'm happy to report that the help of Michael Guterl, of the Webby list, 
I've just successfully compiled Ruby from source (with added 
libraries/extensions/ or whatever they were: zlib1g-dev / 
libreadline5-dev / openssl) installed it, then installed Rubygems (which 
had been giving me real headaches), and then webby.

Haven't used it yet, but this is the farthest I've gotten on this in 4 
days. The Kubuntu packages weren't installing well for me. This solved 
the problem (so far).

Now I'm off to go study what I just did. Couldn't have done it without 
Michael's patient and expert coaching. I have the complete list of 
commands required if anyone wants them.

Tom


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