Fix for Ruby 1.8.7 installation error

Tobias Kraze

June 22, 2018Software engineer at makandra GmbH

On some machines, installing Ruby 1.8.7 with ruby-build can lead to this error:

math.c:37:13: error: missing binary operator before token "("

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Try instead to install ruby-1.8.7-p374.

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Posted by Tobias Kraze to makandra dev (2018-06-22 17:17)