Problem Configuring Ruby Source in Linux

Ruby
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Hi all,

I’m new to Ruby, and I am trying to install Ruby-1.8.5
in my linux box.

However upon configuring it, I encounter
the following problem:

Checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log’ for more details.

And GCC versin is: gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)

Can anybody suggest the right Ruby version
I can install in my Linux?
(I’ve also attached the config.log file).

I’m planning to use Ruby On Rail with Ruby.
Hope to hear from you again.

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Edward

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On Mar 1, 2007, at 24:08, Edward WIJAYA wrote:

checking for C compiler default output file name… configure:
Hope to hear from you again.
fix your CFLAG (or whatever) environment variable or mkdir ~/.ocaml/
include:

configure:2005: gcc I/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/include -I/home/
ewijaya/.libstree/include -I/home/ewijaya/.gsl/include -I/home/
ewijaya/.swish/include -I/home/ewijaya/.lapack/include -I/home/
ewijaya/.berkeley_db/include -I/home/ewijaya/.libgd/include -I/home/
ewijaya/.graphviz/include -L/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/lib -L/home/
ewijaya/.libstree/lib -L/home/ewijaya/.ghc/lib -L/home/ewijaya/.gsl/
lib -L/home/ewijaya/.lapack/lib -L/home/ewijaya/.swish/lib -L/home/
ewijaya/.berkeley_db/lib -L/home/ewijaya/.libgd/lib -L/home/
ewijaya/.graphviz/lib conftest.c >&5
gcc: I/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/include: No such file or directory

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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:08:05PM +0900, Edward WIJAYA wrote:

Checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: C
compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log’ for more details.

which says, at the point where gcc tries to compile its first program:

…
configure:2005: gcc I/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/include
±I/home/ewijaya/.libstree/include -I/home/ewijaya/.gsl/include
±I/home/ewijaya/.swish/include -I/home/ewijaya/.lapack/include
±I/home/ewijaya/.berkeley_db/include -I/home/ewijaya/.libgd/include
±I/home/ewijaya/.graphviz/include -L/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/lib
±L/home/ewijaya/.libstree/lib -L/home/ewijaya/.ghc/lib
-L/home/ewijaya/.gsl/lib±L/home/ewijaya/.lapack/lib
-L/home/ewijaya/.swish/lib
±L/home/ewijaya/.berkeley_db/lib -L/home/ewijaya/.libgd/lib
±L/home/ewijaya/.graphviz/lib conftest.c >&5
gcc: I/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/include: No such file or directory
configure:2008: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
…

Which means you have some junk in your environment. It looks like you
meant
to set
CFLAGS="-I/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/include …"
but you actually have set is
CFLAGS=“I/home/ewijaya/.ocaml/include …”

The safest thing is to get rid of any environment variables like this
which
could affect compilation (CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, LD_RUN_PATH etc). Remove them
from .profile or .bash_profile or wherever else it is that you set them,
then logout and login again.

Or, being a bit more drastic, try:

env -i ./configure …

And GCC versin is: gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)

Can anybody suggest the right Ruby version
I can install in my Linux?

Well you didn’t say what Linux distribution you have, nor what version,
but
I expect ruby-1.8.5 will be fine.

Of course, if you’re not comfortable compiling from source, then maybe
you
would be better off getting a pre-packaged ruby binary for whatever
Linux
distribution you have.

Brian.

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On 3/1/07, Edward WIJAYA [email protected] wrote:

Checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
I can install in my Linux?
(I’ve also attached the config.log file).

I’m planning to use Ruby On Rail with Ruby.
Hope to hear from you again.

–
Edward

It looks like you’re running RedHat or maybe Fedora? It’s been a while
since I’ve been in Fedora/RH, but can you install it via yum?

ie.

yum install ruby

I am pretty sure I did that when I was trying to learn python a few
years
ago…

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Samantha

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Edward WIJAYA wrote:

checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error:
C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log’ for more details.
Please post the contents of this log file. What has happened is that the
C compiler crashed during “configure” and this log file will have that
error message. Thanks!

–
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http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.