Linux: make install fails

After downloading the latest 1.8.2 snapshot, I get an error during the make
install portion

as normal user did:
../configure
make clean
make
make test
then as superuser did:
make install

immediately, I get this error:

···

--------
../miniruby ./instruby.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags=""
--make-flags="" --mantype="doc"
../instruby.rb:124: parse error
    ln(bin+exeext, bin+suf+exeext, force: true)
                                         ^
../instruby.rb:250: parse error
make: *** [do-install-local] Error 1

--------
I don't know ruby very well, which is why I am installing it!
Can someone tell me why I am getting this.

Jerry Davis wrote:

After downloading the latest 1.8.2 snapshot, I get an error during the
make install portion

as normal user did:
./configure
make clean
make
make test
then as superuser did:
make install

immediately, I get this error:
--------
./miniruby ./instruby.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags=""
--make-flags="" --mantype="doc"
./instruby.rb:124: parse error
    ln(bin+exeext, bin+suf+exeext, force: true)
                                         ^
./instruby.rb:250: parse error
make: *** [do-install-local] Error 1

--------
I don't know ruby very well, which is why I am installing it!
Can someone tell me why I am getting this.

Ok, I "fixed" it. I had downloaded the lastest stable snapshot. The
installer obviously didn't work.

So, I killed that and downloaded the latest ruby stable release (1.8.2) and
it worked just fine, and I now have ruby.

the instruby.rb must have been reverted to a former version that did not
work.

Jerry

Hi,

At Fri, 1 Apr 2005 10:44:46 +0900,
Jerry Davis wrote in [ruby-talk:136211]:

immediately, I get this error:
--------
../miniruby ./instruby.rb --dest-dir="" --make="make" --mflags=""
--make-flags="" --mantype="doc"
../instruby.rb:124: parse error
    ln(bin+exeext, bin+suf+exeext, force: true)
                                         ^
../instruby.rb:250: parse error
make: *** [do-install-local] Error 1

Sorry, it was my commit miss and fixed yesterday.

···

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revision 1.59.2.5
date: 2005-03-31 08:08:03 +0900; author: nobu; state: Exp; lines: +0 -17
* instruby.rb: commit miss.
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revision 1.59.2.4
date: 2005-03-30 23:44:59 +0900; author: nobu; state: Exp; lines: +49 -15
* Makefile.in, */Makefile.sub, */configure.bat, cygwin/GNUmakefile.in,
  common.mk, configure.in, ext/extmk.rb, lib/mkmf.rb, instruby.rb,
  runruby.rb: backport extout. [ruby-dev:25963]
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Nobu Nakada