In <20020415091534.A89552 / freeze.org> Jim Freeze <jim / freeze.org> wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:41:49PM +0900, Alwyn wrote:
>> I've downloaded the latest Stable Snapshot and tried building it. It 
>> fails as follows:
>> 
>> cc -g -O2 -pipe -no-precomp -I. -I. -c dln.c
>> dln.c:1093: header file 'dlfcn.h' not found
>> cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in 
>> basic mode
>> make: *** [dln.o] Error 1
>> 
>> Has anyone any idea of a patch that I might apply to get it to compile 
>> successfully? 
>
>I got this error, but only after installing the bash shell.
>Before I installed the bash shell, I downloaded and compiled ruby
>with no problem. Then I installed bash, but inside bash 
>I could not run irb - but I could still run ruby.
>I figured that it must be a path problem but have not taken
>the time to investigate. So, I uninstalled the bash shell
>and reverted back to tcsh. However, now I get the same problem
>you have reported above. I cannot build ruby.
>
>I am very interested in what anyone has to say about this.

I've never installed 'bash', and I always run tsch, so that can't be it. 

For completeness, I will give:

% uname -a
Darwin pc-62-30-160-65-hw.blueyonder.co.uk 5.3 Darwin Kernel Version 5.3:
Thu Jan 24 22:06:02 PST 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.19.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC 
Power Macintosh powerpc
% ./config.guess
powerpc-apple-darwin5.3


Alwyn