Issue #942 has been updated by Michael Selig. I reported this on ruby-core last week ([ruby-core:20850] Re: Problems compiling R20933 on Ubuntu 8.10 Linux), expecting a quick reply & fix, but nothing appears to have been done. Here is an extract from it: > FYI > > I managed to compile sprintf.c by commenting out the following 4 lines: > > #undef vsnprintf > #undef snprintf > #undef HAVE_VSNPRINTF > #undef HAVE_SNPRINTF > > Mike ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/942 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org