From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2010-10-01T02:49:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.9.2-p0 fails to to build

On Sep 30, 2:38 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 12:59 pm, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote:
>
> > 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
>

To clarify: you compile Ruby 1.8 for your current platform and *then*
make Ruby 1.9 targeting the platform you're trying to compile to.

HTH,
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Luis Lavena