From: "Chamila W." <lists@...>
Date: 2013-06-12T22:23:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting Started With Development

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 installs Ruby 1.8.7, but I need to compile Ruby 
2.0.0- ,Is it okay to use Ruby 1.8.7 as executable host?

> 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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