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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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