[Rubyinstaller-devel] autoconf 1.6

Luis Lavena
Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:10:00 -0000

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> I had various problems using 1.6 when building 1.8.6 and 1.9 from
>> trunk. For several reasons the generated configure scripts and the
>> resulting makefiles just blow up.
>>
>> This also happened with usage of mingw-make (that''s why we use
msys-make).
>
> So is there any way to build from SVN TRUNK or is it best to just use
> nightly snapshots?

rake CHECKOUT=1

It will use the svn ruby_1_8_6 branch, not 1.9 or other.

That''s on ruby_installer.rb under checkout URLs

(that pretty much sucks, almost done with rake-compiler to jump into
the installer dsl).

HTH,
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