Installing Ruby on Unix

Ruby
1

I am making the leap to learn Ruby and I have tried to follow some
install instructions for installing Ruby on Unix. I am logged in as root
and have done the following:

  1. autoconf
  2. ./configure

The configure command returns the following message:
“configure: error: cannot run /bin/bash ./config.sub”

Is this a fatal error or is it just stating that the bash shell is not
used?

Can I continue with the “make” commands or should I resolve this
problem?

Need assistance: THanks!

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On May 4, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Chris R. wrote:

I get the feeling that you munged something when you ran ‘autoconf’.
You shouldn’t need to run autoconf (unless maybe you grabbed ruby
from CVS). Try re-unpacking the tarball and then:

  1. ./configure
  2. make
  3. make install
    as root
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On 5/4/06, Chris R. [email protected] wrote:

OK, I’ll try as you suggest.

Is there any particular place that the tar should be placed for
unpacking or does it not matter?

–
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It does not matter where the tar is expanded; however, for a complete
build there are some development libraries you will want to have
installed (off the top of my head, please chime in on the ones I
missed):

iconv
readline
openssl
zlib

4

OK, I’ll try as you suggest.

Is there any particular place that the tar should be placed for
unpacking or does it not matter?

5

Chris R. wrote:

OK, I’ll try as you suggest.

Is there any particular place that the tar should be placed for
unpacking or does it not matter?
Chris,
No it doesn’t matter.

Bill

6

GREAT!

I unpacked the archive and ran the ./configure command again. All
appears to be going well now.

Thanks Patrick and Bill for your help!