# Building ruby with source rpms on ppc

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 21, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-with-source-rpms-on-ppc/65820 "2006-08-21T18:13:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-with-source-rpms-on-ppc/65820/1 "2006-08-21T18:13:20Z")

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folks  
I am trying to build ruby 1.8.4 on ppc architecture for fedora using src  
rpms.  
The problem i am getting is it fails to create ri directory

/devel3/chroot/errata41-aj/BUILD/ruby-1.8.4/ruby-1.8.4/lib/yaml.rb:9:in  
`require’: no such file to load – stringio (LoadError)

any solutions