Building 1.9.1 on CentOS 5.5

[Robin Bowes]

On 08/06/10 15:55, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Robin Bowes wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just tried to rebuild ruby-1.9.1.378-16.el5.fr191.src.rpm on CentOS
>> 5.5 and get this error:
>>
>> + autoconf
>> configure.in:4: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
>> configure.in:4: the top level
>> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.92052 (%build)
>>
>> Note that this is the el5 package.
>>
>> Can that requirement be relaxed, ie. will it work with autoconf-2.59-12
>> that is available on RHEL/CentOS 5.5 ?
>>
> 
> Do you really need to build ruby 1.9.1 yourself? We have it available in a 
> repository where we'll be putting different ruby related packages as well.

Jeroen,

I found that list rather over-whelming, ie. there are a *lot* of subdirs
in there, not all related to RHEL/CentOS.

Are there any docs explaining what each repo contains, and which ones I
should be using ?

R.