I'm compiling Ruby 1.9.1-p376 under Ubuntu 8.04 server LTS (64-bit), by doing the following:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
./configure works without complaints.
make hangs indefinitely until all my RAM and swap is gone. It get stuck after the following output:
compiling ripper
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/ruby1.9.1/ruby-1.9.1-p376/ext/ripper'
gcc -I. -I../../.ext/include/x86_64-linux -I../.././include -I../.././ext/ripper -I../.. -I../../. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H=\"extconf.h\" -fPIC -O2 -g -Wall -Wno-parentheses -o ripper.o -c ripper.c
If I run the gcc command by hand, with the -v argument to get verbose output, it hangs after the following:
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2 --program-suffix=-4.2 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.4/cc1 -quiet -v -I. -I../../.ext/include/x86_64-linux -I../.././include -I../.././ext/ripper -I../.. -I../../. -DRUBY_EXTCONF_H="extconf.h" ripper.c -quiet -dumpbase ripper.c -mtune=generic -auxbase-strip ripper.o -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-parentheses -version -fPIC -fstack-protector -fstack-protector -o /tmp/ccRzHvYH.s
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/local/include/x86_64-linux-gnu"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.4/../../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu"
ignoring duplicate directory "../.././ext/ripper"
ignoring duplicate directory "../../."
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
.
../../.ext/include/x86_64-linux
../.././include
../..
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.2.4/include
/usr/include
End of search list.
GNU C version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4) (x86_64-linux-gnu)
compiled by GNU C version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4).
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=47 --param ggc-min-heapsize=32795
Compiler executable checksum: 6e11fa7ca85fc28646173a91f2be2ea3
I just compiled ruby on another computer for reference, and it took about 10 seconds to print the following output (after the above Compiler executable checksum line):
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-I.' '-I../../.ext/include/i686-linux' '-I../.././include' '-I../.././ext/ripper' '-I../..' '-I../../.' '-DRUBY_EXTCONF_H="extconf.h"' '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' '-fPIC' '-O2' '-g' '-Wall' '-Wno-parentheses' '-o' 'ripper.o' '-c' '-mtune=generic' '-march=i486'
as -V -Qy -o ripper.o /tmp/cca4fa7R.s
GNU assembler version 2.20 (i486-linux-gnu) using BFD version (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20
COMPILER_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../../lib/:/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/../lib/:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.4.1/../../../:/lib/:/usr/lib/
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-I.' '-I../../.ext/include/i686-linux' '-I../.././include' '-I../.././ext/ripper' '-I../..' '-I../../.' '-DRUBY_EXTCONF_H="extconf.h"' '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' '-fPIC' '-O2' '-g' '-Wall' '-Wno-parentheses' '-o' 'ripper.o' '-c' '-mtune=generic' '-march=i486'
I have absolutely no clue what could be going wrong here - any ideas where I should start?