I have been trying to install Ruby 1.9.2-head using RVM, but have been getting this error message:
echo executable host ruby is required
Is it compulsory to have system Ruby in order to install Ruby through RVM?
I have all the dependencies given in rvm notes
, but I do not have any system Ruby installed. The error log shows:
[2011-05-02 07:42:19] make gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o main.o -c main.c gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o dln.o -c dln.c gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o dmydln.o -c dmydln.c gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o dmyencoding.o -c dmyencoding.c gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o version.o -c version.c gcc -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-long-long -fPIC -I. -I.ext/include/i686-linux -I./include -I. -DRUBY_EXPORT -o dmyversion.o -c dmyversion.c echo executable host ruby is required. use --with-baseruby option.; false -I. ./tool/compile_prelude.rb ./prelude.rb miniprelude.c executable host ruby is required. use --with-baseruby option. make: *** [miniprelude.c] Error 1
~/.rvm
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