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I am trying to get ruby set up on a gumstix overo running angstrom linux
with a gnome desktop. I keep getting an error during make that I am sure
is a basic beginner issue that I seem to not be able to sort out. It
always gives me this error:
gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses
-Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers
-Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/armv7l-linux-eabi -I./include
-I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o enum.o -c enum.c
gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses
-Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers
-Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/armv7l-linux-eabi -I./include
-I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o enumerator.o -c enumerator.c
echo executable host ruby is required. use --with-baseruby option.;
false ./tool/generic_erb.rb -c -o known_errors.inc
/template/known_errors.inc.tmpl ./defs/known_errors.def
executable host ruby is required. use --with-baseruby option.
make: *** [known_errors.inc] Error 1


Here is how i did the configure:
/configure --prefix=/opt/metasploit3 --enable-pthread --enable-shared
I have also tried with just ./configure and still get the same problem
as above. Configuring either way goes through fine its in the make where
it fails.

I have tried during configure and make to add the --with-baseruby and
neither gives me a completed make to install. What am I missing here?
Thanks for any help and please feel free to ask me anymore info that I
may have forgotten. Also I tried searching online and dont see the
--with-baseruby option anywhere
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On Sep 29, 2010, at 20:23 , Jl Jl wrote:

> I have tried during configure and make to add the --with-baseruby and
> neither gives me a completed make to install. What am I missing here?

You're missing an existing ruby. Unfortunately, the current build =
requires an existing ruby to bootstrap. Install one (any version) via a =
package manager and do your build. I believe install doesn't have this =
requirement so you can probably uninstall the packaged ruby before you =
install your hand-built ruby.=

Ryan Davis wrote:

> You're missing an existing ruby. Unfortunately, the current build
> requires an existing ruby to bootstrap. Install one (any version) via a
> package manager and do your build. I believe install doesn't have this
> requirement so you can probably uninstall the packaged ruby before you
> install your hand-built ruby.


Ahhh ok thanks for the info hadnt ever seen that before. I will build an
older version, there is no real package management system for my setup
so will just compile from an older source.

Thanks again
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On Sep 30, 12:59*pm, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote:
> On 2010-09-30, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sep 29, 2010, at 20:23 , Jl Jl wrote:
>
> >> I have tried *during configure and make to *add the --with-baseruby
> >> and neither gives me a completed make to install. What am I missing
> >> here?
>
> > You're missing *an existing *ruby. Unfortunately, the *current build
> > requires an *existing ruby to *bootstrap. Install one *(any version)
> > via a package manager and do your build.
>
> And those of *us who build everything from source *and have no package
> managers do, ... what?
>

Download Ruby 1.8 source code, compile it, install it.

Then use that as base ruby and download and compile Ruby 1.9

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Luis Lavena

On Sep 30, 2:38*pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 12:59*pm, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote:
>
> > And those of *us who build everything from source *and have no package
> > managers do, ... what?
>
> Download Ruby 1.8 source code, compile it, install it.
>
> Then use that as base ruby and download and compile Ruby 1.9
>

To clarify: you compile Ruby 1.8 for your current platform and *then*
make Ruby 1.9 targeting the platform you're trying to compile to.

HTH,
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Luis Lavena

On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:55 , Jeremy Henty wrote:

> Thanks. Will that work just for now, or indefinitely? What happens
> when/if the build requires the host to support a Ruby-1.9 specific
> feature?

worry about it when it happens.