X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:06:26 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Building Ruby (was Re: Ruby on Rails 2.0.2/Cygwin Bug) Message-ID: <20080108140626.GZ29568@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <14576153.post@talk.nabble.com> <08ba01c84d47$f469cb90$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <08ba01c84d47$f469cb90$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/