From: "Chamila W." <lists@...>
Date: 2013-06-12T04:53:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Started With Development

Thank you for helping.
I'm hoping to do changes to source and test them. Can I do this after 
installing as you mentioned. How can I build after doing some change to 
the code?

Carlo E. Prelz wrote in post #1112089:
> Subject: Re: Getting Started With Development
>   Date: mer 12 giu 13 03:44:55 +0900
>
> Quoting Chamila W. (lists@ruby-forum.com):
>
>> error saying "Executable host Ruby is required".
> Compilation of Ruby in the normal way requires a pre-existing ruby
> interpreter. Maybe there is a way to compile from scratch - I do not
> know. What I generally do on new machines (I use Debian) is first load
> Debian's package with
>
> apt-get install ruby
>
> After compiling/installing (under /usr/local as default), you can do
>
> apt-get purge ruby
>
> and happily use your self-compiled interpreter plus utilities.
>
> Remember to install the dev package of libreadline if you want to have
> irb command history. Do that before running ./configure.
>
> Carlo

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