Building and installing Ruby 1.8.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3Edit

Created , updated

Note

These notes are superseded by the article, "Building and installing Ruby 1.8.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3".

Build

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.4
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install
make check

Failed tests

  1) Failure:
test_s_open_no_create(TestGDBM) [./gdbm/test_gdbm.rb:94]:
<nil> expected but was
<#<GDBM:0xb6be0490>>.

The source code for the test_gdbm.rb file notes that:

# this test is failed on libgdbm 1.8.0

And the version of libgdbm installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 8) is indeed gdbm-1.8.0-20 so I believe the message is probably harmless.

  2) Failure:
test_verify(OpenSSL::TestX509Store) [./openssl/test_x509store.rb:169]:
This test is expected to be success with OpenSSL 0.9.7c or later.
<true> expected but was
<false>.

1356 tests, 15391 assertions, 2 failures, 0 errors
make: *** [test-all] Error 1

It’s possible that this second test fails because of the version of OpenSSL installed on the server; openssl-0.9.7a-33.17, which is up-to-date with ES release 3 (Taroon Update 8) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I believe it is probably a harmless warning, although I can’t find any confirmation of that fact on the web.

See also