From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-17T23:51:02+09:00
Subject: Re: compiling problems on cygwin

On Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 1:39:56 AM, Shashank wrote:

> Rubyists,

> I am trying to compile ruby-1.8.1 using cygwin and I get this error during
> make:

> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Shashank
> Date/cygwin/ruby-1.8.1/ext/bigdecimal'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/cygdrive/c/Documents', needed by
> `bigdecimal.o'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Shashank
> Date/cygwin/ruby-1.8.1/ext/bigdecimal'
> make: *** [all] Error 1

> Any suggestions?
> -- shanko


Looks like it's the space in the path that's doing it.  Eliminate that
and try again.

FWIW I built the latest 1.8 from CVS on Cygwin very recently, no
problem.

Cheers,
Gavin