[maemo-developers] Cross-compiling Ruby 1.9.2

[From: max]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Luca Donaggio <donaggio at gmail.com> wrote:
> ----- Original message -----
>> I am attempting to cross-compile Ruby 1.9.2 for ARM using Scratchbox
>> (am new to cross-compiling). However, ./configure throws an error
>> saying
>>   "checking whether setpgrp takes no argument... configure: error:
>> cannot check setpgrp when cross compiling".
>>
>> If it won't lead to much issues, can I disable the check?
>>
>> All help appreciated. I would very much love to have Ruby 1.9 running
>> on my N900. :)
>>
>> P.S: I am using the Maemo 5 SDK to build ruby-1.9.2-p180.tar.gz in
>> scratchbox, and I am using the following command to run configure:
>> ./configure --host=i486
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>
> Probably you don't need the --host parameter, it will figure it out by itself.
>
> --
> Luca Donaggio
>

Initially, I had specified just ./configure without any paramter. It
failed, and suggested that I should probably be specifying the host.