# Installing 1.8.6 from source on RHEL4 x86\_64 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 24, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-8-6-from-source-on-rhel4-x86-64/105011 "2007-05-24T22:16:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Costas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Costas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Costas)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-8-6-from-source-on-rhel4-x86-64/105011/1 "2007-05-24T22:16:18Z")
I’ve been fiddling with installing each of the stable snapshot and the 1.8.6 build on the Download Ruby page and it barfs on me. I’m running RHEL4 on x86\_64 ( Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4) ) - Linux 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 17:57:31 EDT 2006 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux I run the configure script, and then make. When building it, it seems to trip on bigdecimal: make[1]: Entering directory `/data/db2home/dw/ruby-1.8.6/ext/ bigdecimal' gcc -I. -I../.. -I../../. -I../.././ext/bigdecimal -fPIC -g -O2 -c bigdecimal.c gcc -shared -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -L'../..' -o ../../.ext/ x86_64-linux/bigdecimal.so bigdecimal.o -lcrypt -lm -lc /usr/bin/ld: /opt/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/ 3.4.6/../../../../lib64/libm.a(k_standard.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against`a local symbol’ can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /opt/usr/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86\_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/…/…/…/…/lib64/ libm.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: \*\*\* […/…/.ext/x86\_64-linux/bigdecimal.so] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/db2home/dw/ruby-1.8.6/ext/ bigdecimal’ make: \*\*\* [all] Error 1 Here’s the output of ./configure: checking build system type… x86\_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type… x86\_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking target system type… x86\_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for gcc… gcc checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out checking whether the C compiler works… yes checking whether we are cross compiling… no checking for suffix of executables… checking for suffix of object files… o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /bin/grep checking for egrep… /bin/grep -E checking whether gcc needs -traditional… no checking whether the linker is GNU ld… yes checking whether gcc -E accepts -o… yes checking for bison… bison -y checking for ranlib… ranlib checking for ar… ar checking for as… as checking whether ln -s works… yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c checking for AIX… no checking for ANSI C header files… yes checking for sys/types.h… yes checking for sys/stat.h… yes checking for stdlib.h… yes checking for string.h… yes checking for memory.h… yes checking for strings.h… yes checking for inttypes.h… yes checking for stdint.h… yes checking for unistd.h… yes checking minix/config.h usability… no checking minix/config.h presence… no checking for minix/config.h… no checking for special C compiler options needed for large files… no checking for \_FILE\_OFFSET\_BITS value needed for large files… no checking for long long… yes checking for off\_t… yes checking for int… yes checking size of int… 4 checking for short… yes checking size of short… 2 checking for long… yes checking size of long… 8 checking for long long… (cached) yes checking size of long long… 8 checking for \_\_int64… no checking size of \_\_int64… 0 checking for off\_t… (cached) yes checking size of off\_t… 8 checking for void\*… yes checking size of void\*… 8 checking for float… yes checking size of float… 4 checking for double… yes checking size of double… 8 checking for time\_t… yes checking size of time\_t… 8 checking for pid\_t… yes checking for gid\_t… yes checking for uid\_t… yes checking for prototypes… yes checking token paste string… ansi checking for variable length prototypes and stdarg.h… yes checking for noreturn function attribute… **attribute** ((noreturn)) x checking for noinline function attribute… **attribute** ((noinline)) x checking for RUBY\_EXTERN… no checking whether sys\_nerr is declared… yes checking for crypt in -lcrypt… yes checking for dlopen in -ldl… no checking for shl\_load in -ldld… no checking for dirent.h that defines DIR… yes checking for library containing opendir… none required checking for ANSI C header files… (cached) yes checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible… yes checking for stdlib.h… (cached) yes checking for string.h… (cached) yes checking for unistd.h… (cached) yes checking limits.h usability… yes checking limits.h presence… yes checking for limits.h… yes checking sys/file.h usability… yes checking sys/file.h presence… yes checking for sys/file.h… yes checking sys/ioctl.h usability… yes checking sys/ioctl.h presence… yes checking for sys/ioctl.h… yes checking sys/syscall.h usability… yes checking sys/syscall.h presence… yes checking for sys/syscall.h… yes checking fcntl.h usability… yes checking fcntl.h presence… yes checking for fcntl.h… yes checking sys/fcntl.h usability… yes checking sys/fcntl.h presence… yes checking for sys/fcntl.h… yes checking sys/select.h usability… yes checking sys/select.h presence… yes checking for sys/select.h… yes checking sys/time.h usability… yes checking sys/time.h presence… yes checking for sys/time.h… yes checking sys/times.h usability… yes checking sys/times.h presence… yes checking for sys/times.h… yes checking sys/param.h usability… yes checking sys/param.h presence… yes checking for sys/param.h… yes checking syscall.h usability… yes checking syscall.h presence… yes checking for syscall.h… yes checking pwd.h usability… yes checking pwd.h presence… yes checking for pwd.h… yes checking grp.h usability… yes checking grp.h presence… yes checking for grp.h… yes checking a.out.h usability… yes checking a.out.h presence… yes checking for a.out.h… yes checking utime.h usability… yes checking utime.h presence… yes checking for utime.h… yes checking for memory.h… (cached) yes checking direct.h usability… no checking direct.h presence… no checking for direct.h… no checking sys/resource.h usability… yes checking sys/resource.h presence… yes checking for sys/resource.h… yes checking sys/mkdev.h usability… no checking sys/mkdev.h presence… no checking for sys/mkdev.h… no checking sys/utime.h usability… no checking sys/utime.h presence… no checking for sys/utime.h… no checking netinet/in\_systm.h usability… yes checking netinet/in\_systm.h presence… yes checking for netinet/in\_systm.h… yes checking float.h usability… yes checking float.h presence… yes checking for float.h… yes checking ieeefp.h usability… no checking ieeefp.h presence… no checking for ieeefp.h… no checking pthread.h usability… yes checking pthread.h presence… yes checking for pthread.h… yes checking ucontext.h usability… yes checking ucontext.h presence… yes checking for ucontext.h… yes checking intrinsics.h usability… no checking intrinsics.h presence… no checking for intrinsics.h… no checking for rlim\_t… yes checking size of rlim\_t… 8 checking for size\_t… yes checking for struct stat.st\_blksize… yes checking for struct stat.st\_blocks… yes checking for struct stat.st\_rdev… yes checking for uid\_t in sys/types.h… (cached) yes checking type of array argument to getgroups… gid\_t checking return type of signal handlers… void checking for working alloca.h… yes checking for alloca… yes checking for working memcmp… yes checking for \_LARGEFILE\_SOURCE value needed for large files… 1 checking for ftello… yes checking for dup2… yes checking for memmove… yes checking for strcasecmp… yes checking for strncasecmp… yes checking for strerror… yes checking for strftime… yes checking for strchr… yes checking for strstr… yes checking for strtoul… yes checking for crypt… yes checking for flock… yes checking for vsnprintf… yes checking for isnan… yes checking for finite… yes checking for isinf… yes checking for hypot… yes checking for acosh… yes checking for erf… yes checking for fmod… yes checking for killpg… yes checking for wait4… yes checking for waitpid… yes checking for syscall… yes checking for chroot… yes checking for fsync… yes checking for getcwd… yes checking for eaccess… no checking for truncate… yes checking for chsize… no checking for times… yes checking for utimes… yes checking for fcntl… yes checking for lockf… yes checking for lstat… yes checking for symlink… yes checking for link… yes checking for readlink… yes checking for setitimer… yes checking for setruid… no checking for seteuid… yes checking for setreuid… yes checking for setresuid… yes checking for setproctitle… no checking for setrgid… no checking for setegid… yes checking for setregid… yes checking for setresgid… yes checking for issetugid… no checking for pause… yes checking for lchown… yes checking for lchmod… no checking for getpgrp… yes checking for setpgrp… yes checking for getpgid… yes checking for setpgid… yes checking for initgroups… yes checking for getgroups… yes checking for setgroups… yes checking for getpriority… yes checking for getrlimit… yes checking for setrlimit… yes checking for sysconf… yes checking for dlopen… no checking for sigprocmask… yes checking for sigaction… yes checking for \_setjmp… yes checking for setsid… yes checking for telldir… yes checking for seekdir… yes checking for fchmod… yes checking for mktime… yes checking for timegm… yes checking for cosh… yes checking for sinh… yes checking for tanh… yes checking for setuid… yes checking for setgid… yes checking for setenv… yes checking for unsetenv… yes checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h… time.h checking for struct tm.tm\_zone… yes checking for struct tm.tm\_gmtoff… yes checking for external int daylight… yes checking for negative time\_t for gmtime(3)… yes checking whether getpgrp requires zero arguments… yes checking whether setpgrp takes no argument… yes checking whether byte ordering is bigendian… no checking for an ANSI C-conforming const… yes checking whether char is unsigned… no checking for inline… inline checking for working volatile… yes checking whether right shift preserve sign bit… yes checking read count field in FILE structures… not found(OK if using GNU libc) checking read buffer ptr field in FILE structures… \_IO\_read\_ptr checking read buffer end field in FILE structures… \_IO\_read\_end checking whether need to seek between R/W… no checking whether st\_ino is huge… no checking whether \_SC\_CLK\_TCK is supported… yes checking stack growing direction… -1 checking whether ELF binaries are produced… yes checking whether OS depend dynamic link works… yes checking for nroff… /usr/bin/nroff config.h unchanged configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile ---
**Author:** ![Costas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Costas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Costas)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-8-6-from-source-on-rhel4-x86-64/105011/2 "2007-09-25T23:03:56Z")
Costas wrote: > > > > (Nahant Update 4) ) - Linux 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Aug 17 > > > > gcc -shared -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -L’…/…’ -o …/…/.ext/x86\_64-linux/bigdecimal.so bigdecimal.o -lcrypt -lm -lc > > > > make: \*\*\* [all] Error 1 > > > > checking for suffix of executables… > > > > checking for bison… bison -y > > > > checking for stdlib.h… yes > > > > checking for \_FILE\_OFFSET\_BITS value needed for large files… no > > > > checking for \_\_int64… no > > > > checking size of time\_t… 8 > > > > checking for RUBY\_EXTERN… no > > > > checking for unistd.h… (cached) yes > > > > checking sys/syscall.h presence… yes > > > > checking sys/time.h usability… yes > > > > checking for syscall.h… yes > > > > checking utime.h presence… yes > > > > checking for sys/mkdev.h… no > > > > checking ieeefp.h presence… no > > > > checking for rlim\_t… yes > > > > checking for working memcmp… yes > > > > checking for strtoul… yes > > > > checking for killpg… yes > > > > checking for utimes… yes > > > > checking for setresuid… yes > > > > checking for setpgrp… yes > > > > checking for sigprocmask… yes > > > > checking for tanh… yes > > > > recompile with -fPIC > > > > It looks like some kind of incompatibility between a system library and bigdecimal. Try taking the ‘-fPIC’ off of “CFLAGS” in your Makefiles and see if that helps. > > > > I do know that Ruby 1.8.6 compiles, etc., flawlessly on my Gentoo AMD64 system, but I have gcc 4.1.2, not 3.4.6. You could also try an upgrade to RHEL 5 to see if it goes away. > > Thanks for the info - actually that flag though wasn’t on. It’s > weird because it compiles fine on an older RHEL4 box but not a newer > one… It’s unusual that’s the case. Are you saying that it works on one RHEL4/x86\_64 box and not the other, or that it works on an RHEL4/x86(32) box but not on an RHEL/x86\_64 box? I’ll be loading CentOS 5 on an x64 system later this week, and it comes with Ruby 1.8.5, so I know at least that works. You could try getting the source RPMs for Ruby and its friends from the RHEL 5 source repository and doing an “rpmbuild” … that would tell you if there are special hacks you need to do to bring Ruby up on your box. ---
**Author:** ![Costas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Costas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Costas)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-1-8-6-from-source-on-rhel4-x86-64/105011/3 "2007-09-25T23:05:32Z")
Costas wrote: > > recompile with -fPIC > > checking build system type…x86\_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed > > checking whether ln -s works… yes > > checking for inttypes.h… yes > > checking size of int… 4 > > checking for void\*… yes > > checking for prototypes… yes > > checking for shl\_load in -ldld… no > > checking sys/file.h usability… yes > > checking for fcntl.h… yes > > checking sys/times.h presence… yes > > checking grp.h usability… yes > > checking direct.h presence… no > > checking netinet/in\_systm.h usability… yes > > checking for pthread.h… yes > > checking for struct stat.st\_blocks… yes > > checking for memmove… yes > > checking for isnan… yes > > checking for chroot… yes > > checking for symlink… yes > > checking for setregid… yes > > checking for getgroups… yes > > checking for telldir… yes > > checking for unsetenv… yes > > Bump - please - anybody? Help? The only obvious thing that I see is gcc -shared -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -L’…/…’ -o …/…/.ext/x86\_64-linux/bigdecimal.so bigdecimal.o -lcrypt -lm -lc /usr/bin/ld: /opt/usr/bin/…/lib/gcc/x86\_64-redhat-linux/ 3.4.6/…/…/…/…/lib64/libm.a(k\_standard.o): relocation R\_X86\_64\_32S against `a local symbol’ can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC It looks like some kind of incompatibility between a system library and bigdecimal. Try taking the ‘-fPIC’ off of “CFLAGS” in your Makefiles and see if that helps. I do know that Ruby 1.8.6 compiles, etc., flawlessly on my Gentoo AMD64 system, but I have gcc 4.1.2, not 3.4.6. You could also try an upgrade to RHEL 5 to see if it goes away.