From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-10-01T02:41:16+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.9.2-p0 fails to to build

On Sep 30, 12:59 pm, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote:
> On 2010-09-30, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sep 29, 2010, at 20:23 , Jl Jl wrote:
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> >> I have tried  during configure and make to  add the --with-baseruby
> >> and neither gives me a completed make to install. What am I missing
> >> here?
>
> > You're missing  an existing  ruby. Unfortunately, the  current build
> > requires an  existing ruby to  bootstrap. Install one  (any version)
> > via a package manager and do your build.
>
> And those of  us who build everything from source  and have no package
> managers do, ... what?
>

Download Ruby 1.8 source code, compile it, install it.

Then use that as base ruby and download and compile Ruby 1.9

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Luis Lavena