Sche Daniel wrote:
> I am trying to install ruby1.8.4
>
> ./configure --prefix=/pool/installed2 --disable-nls
> make
>
> ...
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/ext/enumerator'
> compiling etc
> /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:174:in `initialize': 
> Permission denie
> d - mkmftmp1.log (Errno::EACCES)
>         from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:174:in `open'
>         from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:205:in `postpone'
>         from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:178:in `open'
>         from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:201:in `postpone'
>         from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:541:in 
> `checking_for'
>         from /pool/software/ruby/ruby-1.8.4/lib/mkmf.rb:669:in 
> `have_type'
>         from ../.././ext/etc/extconf.rb:27
>         from ./ext/extmk.rb:138:in `extmake'
>         from ./ext/extmk.rb:397
>         from ./ext/extmk.rb:396
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
> does someone know what may be going wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -- 
> Daniel
>
>
Do you just need Ruby on CygWin, or do you need to build it from source? 
My copy of CygWin (I install the whole thing) has Ruby 1.8.4 as part of 
the distribution. I don't know why building Ruby from source would 
break, though.