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

[Dave H. <da...@gr...>]

On Sep 13, 2005, at 2:22, Jonathan Paisley wrote:

> 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.

I don't. That's Tiger only.
> Did you switch the link by hand? There's a tool to do this: 
> gcc_select. Perhaps switching by hand broke things?

I did. Then I used gcc_select. Still didn't work.

> 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.

The error message in my original message was copied verbatim from the 
config.log. That's all it gave me.