From: Robert Klemme Date: 2012-11-27T17:21:51+09:00 Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.3p237 in cygwin On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: > On 23/11/2012 00:56, Robert Klemme wrote: >> Why don't you use the Ruby version from the repo? cygwin switched to >> 1.9 a while back: >> >> $ ruby -v >> ruby 1.9.3p327 (2012-11-10 revision 37606) [i386-cygwin] >> > Thanks for that, Robert. You're welcome. > How do they (the CygWin guys) build it? They must do something to fix > that error. Why can't we (the Ruby guys) do the same thing (it's in a > #ifdef CYGWIN, so it won't affect anything else)? You can download the sources. Maybe that'll help. You could also diff vs. the default sources. > I'm trying to build a CygWin program with an embedded Ruby interpreter. > It builds and starts running but exits immediately. I can't debug it in > Cygwin GDB - it just hangs whenever I do a 's' or 'n' command. Ah. Then of course you must build it. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/