From: cjon@... (Cullen J O'neill)
Date: 2000-12-09T12:40:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6948] Re: configure error - ruby 1.6.1

Ross Mohn (rpmohn@panix.com) wrote:
: I get an error running configure when building ruby 1.6.1. I know it's 
: around line 5170 in the configure script, but I can't seem to fix it 
: without hard-coding. Please help! I'm sure it has to do with the fact that 
: I'm specifying --prefix=.

: % make distclean
: % configure --prefix=~/tools
: <snip>
: checking whether OS depend dynameic link works... yes
: configure: : cannot execute
: configure: ${prefix}/lib/ruby/site_ruby: not found
: creating config.h
: <snip>

Did you try writing out the whole path instead of using '~'?

Cullen J O'Neill
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