Ruby 1.8.6 installation error on linux

Hi all,

i’m brand new to ruby. Just want to give it a try on linux, ruby-1.8.6

cd /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6
./configure --prefix=pwd

make
make install

make is ok but ‘make install’ encountered error. anyone knows why?
Many thanks.

[ericho@bioinfo ruby-1.8.6]$ make install
./miniruby ./instruby.rb --dest-dir="" --extout=".ext" --make=“make”
–mflags="" --make-flags="" --installed-list .installed.list –
mantype=“doc”
installing binary commands
installing command scripts
/share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/lib/fileutils.rb:1394:in fu_each_src_dest': same file: bin/irb and /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/bin/irb (ArgumentError) from /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/lib/fileutils.rb:1411:infu_each_src_dest0’
from /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/lib/fileutils.rb:1393:in
fu_each_src_dest' from /share/apps/ruby-1.8.6/lib/fileutils.rb:840:ininstall’
from ./instruby.rb:99:in install' from ./instruby.rb:246 from ./instruby.rb:239:ineach’
from ./instruby.rb:239
from ./instruby.rb:348:in call' from ./instruby.rb:348 from ./instruby.rb:345:ineach’
from ./instruby.rb:345
from ./instruby.rb:344:in `each’
from ./instruby.rb:344
make: *** [do-install-nodoc] Error 1

Eric.