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Ruby not compiling on mountain lion


hi i am trying to get ruby to compile on osx 10.8 mountain lion with rvm, though i keep getting the following error

$ rvm reinstall 1.9.3 --with-readline-dir=$rvm_path/usr
Removing /Users/paulmcguane/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p194...
it seems that /Users/paulmcguane/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194 is already non existent.
Removing ruby-1.9.3-p194 aliases...
Removing ruby-1.9.3-p194 wrappers...
Removing ruby-1.9.3-p194 environments...
Removing ruby-1.9.3-p194 binaries...
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/paulmcguane/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...

ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #fetching 
ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #extracting ruby-1.9.3-p194 to /Users/paulmcguane/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p194
ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #extracted to /Users/paulmcguane/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p194
ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #configuring 
ruby-1.9.3-p194 - #compiling 
Error running 'make ', please read /Users/paulmcguane/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p194/make.log
There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.

Solution

  • From my experience, the best way to avoid any problems with that is osx-gcc-installer