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Re: Building Ruby (was Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:06:26 +0100
- Subject: Re: Building Ruby (was Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug)
- References: <d45df6780712261141g1f44b397k34419bb30e47442f@mail.gmail.com> <14576153.post@talk.nabble.com> <08ba01c84d47$f469cb90$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 2 14:01, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 02 January 2008 10:25, melvins wrote:
> > Mike Boone wrote:
> >>
> >> In reference to that /dev/urandom bug I encountered last week, I
> >> thought I might try to build Ruby from source on Cygwin and see how it
> >> works.
> >>
> >> I downloaded Ruby 1.8.6-p111 off the ruby-lang.org website, unpacked
> >> it, then ./configure and make. This fails with:
> >>
> >> ./missing/strftime.c:193: error: 'timezone' redeclared as different kind
> >> of symbol /usr/include/cygwin/time.h:33: error: previous declaration of
> >> 'timezone' was here make: *** [strftime.o] Error 1
> >>
>
> > I had the same problem with you mike, what I did is I downloaded a
> > stable-snapshot version of ruby, then I copy the missing/strftime.c file to
> > hte 1.8.6 version, run make again, then it now all works.
>
> For full explanation, see
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-12/msg00003.html
I've proposed a patch on comp.lang.ruby:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/0e3f786c969bcd07
Corinna
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