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Subject:	RE: Building Ruby (was Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug)
Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:01:21 -0000
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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


    cheers,
      DaveK
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