On 2010-09-30, Luis Lavena <luislavena / gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 30, 12:59pm, Jeremy Henty <onepo... / starurchin.org> wrote:
>> On 2010-09-30, Ryan Davis <ryand-r... / zenspider.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > ... Unfortunately, the current  build requires an existing ruby
>> > to bootstrap.  Install one (any version) via  a package manager
>> > and do your build.
>>
>> And  those of us  who build  everything from  source and  have no
>> package managers do, ... what?
>
> Download Ruby 1.8 source code, compile it, install it.
>
> Then use that as base ruby and download and compile Ruby 1.9

Thanks.  Will that  work just for now, or  indefinitely?  What happens
when/if the  build requires  the host to  support a  Ruby-1.9 specific
feature?

Regards,

Jeremy Henty