whoops, wrong site: try this: http://pragmaticstudio.com/rails
On Feb 26, 1:26 pm, Joel <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the advice, Valery. I tried that, and (I believe) > followed the instructions at the rvm page. I say I *believe*, because > these instructions always seem to lead to a number of things that one > might reasonably try, though there's no clear notion of what one > really should be doing.... argh. anyway, I got to the last > instruction, which is to type rvm install 1.9.3, and I got the > following: > > joelrwesley$ rvm install 1.9.3 > Fetching yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/archives > Extracting yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src > Configuring yaml in /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4. > Compiling yaml in /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/yaml-0.1.4. > Installing yaml to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/usr > Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/rubies/ > ruby-1.9.3-p125, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)... > > ruby-1.9.3-p125 - #fetching > ruby-1.9.3-p125 - #extracted to /Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3- > p125 (already extracted) > ruby-1.9.3-p125 - #configuring > Error running ' ./configure --prefix=/Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/rubies/ > ruby-1.9.3-p125 --enable-shared --disable-install-doc --with-libyaml -- > with-opt-dir=/Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/usr ', please read /Users/ > joelrwesley/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p125/configure.log > There has been an error while running configure. Halting the > installation. > joelrwesley$ > > So I went in and read the log. Here's what it said: > > joelrwesley$ emacs configure.log > > [2012-02-26 11:39:47] ./configure --prefix=/Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/ > rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125 --enable-shared --disable-install-doc --with- > libyaml --with-opt-dir=/Users/j\ > oelrwesley/.rvm/usr > configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-libyaml > checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin11.3.0 > checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin11.3.0 > checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin11.3.0 > checking whether the C compiler works... no > configure: error: in `/Users/joelrwesley/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p125': > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > See `config.log' for more details > > So apparently my C compiler doesn't work. Argh! > > Thanks for any sympathy and advice, > Joel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
