Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Sob. Here I go again.

[Jonathan P. <jp...@dc...>]

On 13 Sep 2005, at 9:56, Dave Howell wrote:

> Fine. Download what ruby-lang.org tells me is the latest version.  
> Run ./configure.
> "configure:2045: error: C compiler cannot create executables"
> I recall once before having to change from the default gcc3.3  
> compiler to something else. Sure enough, on my other system, gcc  
> has been redefined as gcc-3.1. I switch the gcc link to 3.1.  
> Doesn't work. I copy the gcc binary from my other computer to this  
> one. Still doesn't work.

gcc-3.3 should work fine, or gcc-4.0 if you have Xcode 2.1.

Did you switch the link by hand? There's a tool to do this:  
gcc_select. Perhaps switching by hand broke things?

Look in the 'config.log' file to see what error messages the compiler/ 
linker spat out when failing. You could post the relevant excerpt  
here if it's not obvious.

> I guess at this point, I could try obliterating /usr/local/bin/ruby  
> entirely, and copy over the directory from my laptop.  Yea, that  
> sounds like a recipe for more not-working . . . .

Probably won't work unless you copy all of /usr/local, due to library  
dependencies.

I use ruby from darwinports (www.darwinports.org) which installs  
into /opt/local. If there's some fundamental compiler problem on your  
system then it's unlikely to help though.