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

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I am trying to install ruby on my VPS (Centos 5.4) 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
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p352.tar.gz
[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 forall’.
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.

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

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 W.
http://www.twitter.com/cwgem

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Hmm, that’s kind of odd. Try yum installing autoconf and automake, then

Installed successfully

running autoreconf in the toplevel source directory. Then continue with

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

the usual ./configure / make routine.

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

I am out of ideas