Ruby 2.0.1 preview install problem

I’ve compiled Ruby 2.0.1preview1 but make install produces this:

ruby: invalid option --disable=gems (-h will show valid options)
make: *** [known_errors.inc] Error 2

How to fix?

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That’s a bug. You’re prolly trying to bootstrap off of 1.8 and it
doesn’t support that flag.

This sucks, please report the bug to ruby-core@.

You can try building 1.9 first. Make sure it is installed to a location
in your path earlier than your stock ruby, then build 2.

On 08/10/2013 20:53, Ryan D. wrote:

That’s a bug. You’re prolly trying to bootstrap off of 1.8 and it doesn’t
support that flag.

This sucks, please report the bug to ruby-core@.

You can try building 1.9 first. Make sure it is installed to a location in your
path earlier than your stock ruby, then build 2.

It’s not quite so straightforward as I installed successfully on a - to
my knowledge - identical setup on my Macbook Pro running 10.8. The error
was from an installation on a Mac desktop running 10.8. Both machines
have the following setup:

  • rbenv and ruby-build installed via MacPorts
  • build dir for ruby 2.1 is $HOME/.rbenv/dev
  • configure --prefix=/sw required gobjcopy and friends so installed
    binutils on the desktop. Already installed on Macbook
  • both machines running ruby 2.0.0p247 installed via rbenv

gvim

On 08/10/2013 20:53, Ryan D. wrote:

That’s a bug. You’re prolly trying to bootstrap off of 1.8 and it doesn’t
support that flag.

This sucks, please report the bug to ruby-core@.

You can try building 1.9 first. Make sure it is installed to a location in your
path earlier than your stock ruby, then build 2.

Fixed. Thanks. Digging deeper, the PATH setup was slightly different on
each machine.

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