[BioRuby] Installing Ruby 1.9 on CentOS 5.4

[Francesco Strozzi]

Yes maybe try to use --with-opt-dir=path/to/libyaml in configure. Hope it
helps in resolving this issue....

Francesco

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 17:34, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Francesco Strozzi
> <francesco.strozzi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Try to install libyaml from source, here it seems they have faced the
> same
> > problem:
> >
> http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/10/31/install-ruby-193-with-libyaml-on-centos/
> > Cheers,
> > Francesco
>
> That didn't seem to work,
>
> $ sudo yum erase libyaml-devel
> $ sudo yum erase libyaml
>
> then:
>
> $ cd ~/Downloads
> $ wget http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
> $ tar -xzvf yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz
> $ cd yaml-0.1.4
> $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME
> $ make
> $ make check
> $ make install
>
> Then back to reinstall Ruby as before.
>
> Maybe there is a problem in the configure script, or I need
> to tell it to look for libyaml under $HOME.
>
> Peter
>



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Francesco