X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <14576153.post@talk.nabble.com> Subject: RE: Building Ruby (was Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:01:21 -0000 Message-ID: <08ba01c84d47$f469cb90$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <14576153.post@talk.nabble.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/