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Installing ruby on 5.4 throws errors and doesn't create the make file

By sridhar pandurangiah at 09/10/2011 - 11:36

I am trying to install ruby on my VPS and I get strange errors. Didn't
get this on my previous VPS'. Any ideas what am I missing
[root@Studious ruby-1.8.7-p352]# yum install -y gcc zlib zlib-devel
[root@Studious ruby-1.8.7-p352]# wget
<a href="ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.gz" title="ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.gz</a>
[root@Studious ruby-1.8.7-p352]# tar xvf ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.gz
[root@Studious ruby-1.8.7-p352]# cd ruby-1.8.7-p352
[root@Studious ruby-1.8.7-p352]# ./configure --enable-pthread
[root@Studious ruby-1.8.7-p352]# make
gcc -g -O2 -DRUBY_EXPORT -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -L. -rdynamic
-Wl,-export-dynamic main.o libruby-static.a -lpthread -lrt -ldl
-lcrypt -lm -o miniruby
rbconfig.rb unchanged
compiling Win32API
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stud/ruby-1.8.7-p352/ext/Win32API'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/stud/ruby-1.8.7-p352/ext/Win32API'
compiling bigdecimal
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stud/ruby-1.8.7-p352/ext/bigdecimal'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/stud/ruby-1.8.7-p352/ext/bigdecimal'......

Doesn't create the make file. Haven't encountered this issue on the
other VPS' Any help would be appreciated.

Comments

Re: Installing ruby on 5.4 throws errors and doesn't create the

By Chris White at 09/10/2011 - 11:46

Hmm, that's kind of odd. Try yum installing autoconf and automake, then running autoreconf in the toplevel source directory. Then continue with the usual ./configure / make routine.

Regards,
Chris White
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Re: Installing ruby on 5.4 throws errors and doesn't create the

By sridhar pandurangiah at 09/11/2011 - 03:49

Installed successfully

configure.in:4: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
configure.in:4: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63

Didn't run these steps because the previous step threw errors.

I am out of ideas