From: Jeremy Henty <onepoint@...>
Date: 2010-10-01T04:55:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-1.9.2-p0 fails to to build

On 2010-09-30, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 12:59 pm, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote:
>> On 2010-09-30, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > ... 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

Thanks.  Will that  work just for now, or  indefinitely?  What happens
when/if the  build requires  the host to  support a  Ruby-1.9 specific
feature?

Regards,

Jeremy Henty