I had the same problem with you mike, what I did is I downloaded a stable-snapshot version of ruby, then I copy the missing/strftime.c file to hte 1.8.6 version, run make again, then it now all works.
Mike Boone wrote: > > In reference to that /dev/urandom bug I encountered last week, I > thought I might try to build Ruby from source on Cygwin and see how it > works. > > I downloaded Ruby 1.8.6-p111 off the ruby-lang.org website, unpacked > it, then ./configure and make. This fails with: > > ./missing/strftime.c:193: error: 'timezone' redeclared as different > kind of symbol > /usr/include/cygwin/time.h:33: error: previous declaration of > 'timezone' was here > make: *** [strftime.o] Error 1 > > I'm not sure why that happens, and I'm not sure what's different about > the Cygwin Ruby package which works. Any ideas? > > Incidentally, I downloaded the new development release of Ruby 1.9.0, > and it compiles just fine on Cygwin. It also runs my /dev/urandom bug > script without failing, and lseek is not called in the strace. > > Mike Boone > http://boonedocks.net/mike/ > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Building-Ruby-%28was-Re%3A-Ruby-on-Rails-2.0.2-Cygwin-Bug%29-tp14505644p14576153.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
