From: Daniel Kelley <news-1075254050@...>
Date: 2004-01-28T10:54:56+09:00
Subject: Re: ./configure problem

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "./configure problem"
>     on 04/01/28, William Sundberg <william@m4trade.com> writes:
> 
> |I am running RedHat 9.0 on my laptop Pentium II
> |And I have the following problem when I try to install ruby 1.8.1.
> |
> |./configure
> |checking build system type... Invalid configuration
> |`i686-pc-linux-oldld': machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized
> |configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub i686-pc-linux-oldld failed
> 

I get exactly this error if the gcc packages are not installed - fresh
minimal install (Fedora core/1), and ruby is the *first* thing I
compile!

You should be able to type from the prompt:

  1097>gcc
  gcc: no input files



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