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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.



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'm not sure why that happens, and I'm not sure what's different about
> the Cygwin Ruby package which works. Any ideas?
> 
> Incidentally, I downloaded the new development release of Ruby 1.9.0,
> and it compiles just fine on Cygwin. It also runs my /dev/urandom bug
> script without failing, and lseek is not called in the strace.
> 
> Mike Boone
> http://boonedocks.net/mike/
> 
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