From: Michael Guterl <mguterl@...>
Date: 2009-08-03T12:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: does anyone have Ruby 1.9 64b for Windows working?

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Nick Brown<nick@nick-brown.com> wrote:
>> All I have to do to compile the latest ruby source is to type this:
>>
>> $ svn update
>> $ make
>> $ sudo make install
>
> Speed is important for this project, and it will have to run on Windows
> at some point. But for now, I can do some of the work on Linux.
>
> So: I checked out http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk. But even on
> Linux, it is not as simple as running "make." Usually, when installing
> from source, I find a configure script that sets everything up for make.
> No such script was delivered with with the subversion checkout of ruby.
> What am I missing to make the process as simple as you describe above?
> Something with autoconf, maybe?
>
> System: Ubuntu 9.04
>
> $ svn update
> At revision 24359.
> $ make
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> $ ./configure
> -bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

I'm not positive, but I think if you run `autoconf` in the checkout
directory it will generate the configure script.

Best,
Michael Guterl