Installation of ruby 1.9.3 in Mac OS Mavericks

Question

I have tried the following with macports but give up and uninstalled (http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html) it as I was being unsuccessful with the gcc42 library and gave a try to Homebrew.

Everything went (almost) smooth, i had to manually delete some library files that i have installed with macports, Homebrew was gentle and told me exactly what to do. I already had the xcode installed but i reinstalled it, just in case.

Then I tried to install ruby 1.9.3 using:

\curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby=1.9.3

and I'm getting this error:

ruby-1.9.3-p448 - #configuring........
Error running './configure --prefix=/Users/pedro/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448 --with-opt-dir=/usr/local/opt/libyaml:/usr/local/opt/readline:/usr/local/opt/libksba:/usr/local/opt/openssl --without-tcl --without-tk --enable-shared',
please read /Users/pedro/.rvm/log/1383305143_ruby-1.9.3-p448/configure.log
There has been an error while running configure. Halting the installation.

configure.log tail:

$ tail  /Users/pedro/.rvm/log/1383305143_ruby-1.9.3-p448/configure.log
current path: /Users/pedro/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p448
command(6): ./configure --prefix=/Users/pedro/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448 --with-opt-dir=/usr/local/opt/libyaml:/usr/local/opt/readline:/usr/local/opt/libksba:/usr/local/opt/openssl --without-tcl --without-tk --enable-shared
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-tcl, --without-tk
checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/pedro/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p448':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

config.log content:

    This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure --prefix=/Users/pedro/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448 --with-opt-dir=/usr/local/opt/libyaml:/usr/local/opt/readline:/usr/local/opt/libksba:/usr/local/opt/openssl --without-tcl --without-tk --enable-shared

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = pedros-mbp.home
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 13.0.0
uname -s = Darwin
uname -v = Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64

/usr/bin/uname -p = i386
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = Mach kernel version:
     Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel configured for up to 8 processors.
4 processors are physically available.
8 processors are logically available.
Processor type: i486 (Intel 80486)
Processors active: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Primary memory available: 4.00 gigabytes
Default processor set: 170 tasks, 969 threads, 8 processors
Load average: 2.68, Mach factor: 5.31
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: /usr/local/opt/gcc46/bin
PATH: /usr/local/opt/pkg-config/bin
PATH: /usr/local/opt/libtool/bin
PATH: /usr/local/opt/automake/bin
PATH: /usr/local/opt/autoconf/bin
PATH: /opt/local/bin
PATH: /opt/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /Users/pedro/.rvm/bin


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:2799: checking build system type
configure:2813: result: i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
configure:2881: checking host system type
configure:2894: result: i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
configure:2914: checking target system type
configure:2927: result: i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
configure:3408: checking for C compiler version
configure:3417: /bin/gcc-4.6 --version >&5
./configure: line 3419: /bin/gcc-4.6: No such file or directory
configure:3428: $? = 127
configure:3417: /bin/gcc-4.6 -v >&5
./configure: line 3419: /bin/gcc-4.6: No such file or directory
configure:3428: $? = 127
configure:3417: /bin/gcc-4.6 -V >&5
./configure: line 3419: /bin/gcc-4.6: No such file or directory
configure:3428: $? = 127
configure:3417: /bin/gcc-4.6 -qversion >&5
./configure: line 3419: /bin/gcc-4.6: No such file or directory
configure:3428: $? = 127
configure:3448: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3470: /bin/gcc-4.6    conftest.c  >&5
./configure: line 3472: /bin/gcc-4.6: No such file or directory
configure:3474: $? = 127
configure:3512: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define CANONICALIZATION_FOR_MATHN 1
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:3517: error: in `/Users/pedro/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.3-p448':
configure:3519: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

ac_cv_build=i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
ac_cv_env_CCC_set=
ac_cv_env_CCC_value=
ac_cv_env_CC_set=set
ac_cv_env_CC_value=/bin/gcc-4.6
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CXX_set=
ac_cv_env_CXX_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_host=i386-apple-darwin13.0.0
ac_cv_prog_CC=/bin/gcc-4.6
ac_cv_target=i386-apple-darwin13.0.0

## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##

ALLOCA=''
AR=''
ARCHFILE=''
ARCH_FLAG=''
AS=''
ASFLAGS=''
BASERUBY='ruby'
BUILTIN_ENCOBJS=''
BUILTIN_TRANSOBJS=''
BUILTIN_TRANSSRCS=''
CAPITARGET=''
CC='/bin/gcc-4.6'
CCDLFLAGS=''
CFLAGS=''
CHDIR=''
COMMON_HEADERS=''
COMMON_LIBS=''
COMMON_MACROS=''
COUTFLAG=''
CP=''
CPP=''
CPPFLAGS=''
CPPOUTFILE=''
CXX=''
CXXFLAGS=''
DEFS=''
DLDFLAGS=''
DLDLIBS=''
DLEXT2=''
DLEXT=''
DLLWRAP=''
DOT=''
DOXYGEN=''
ECHO_C='\c'
ECHO_N=''
ECHO_T=''
EGREP=''
ENABLE_SHARED=''
EXECUTABLE_EXTS=''
EXEEXT=''
EXPORT_PREFIX=''
EXTDLDFLAGS=''
EXTOUT=''
EXTSTATIC=''
GCC=''
GNU_LD=''
GREP=''
INSTALLDOC=''
INSTALL_DATA=''
INSTALL_PROGRAM=''
INSTALL_SCRIPT=''
LDFLAGS=''
LDSHARED=''
LDSHAREDXX=''
LIBEXT=''
LIBOBJS=''
LIBPATHENV=''
LIBPATHFLAG=''
LIBRUBY=''
LIBRUBYARG=''
LIBRUBYARG_SHARED=''
LIBRUBYARG_STATIC=''
LIBRUBY_A=''
LIBRUBY_ALIASES=''
LIBRUBY_DLDFLAGS=''
LIBRUBY_LDSHARED=''
LIBRUBY_RELATIVE=''
LIBRUBY_SO=''
LIBS=''
LINK_SO=''
LN_S=''
LTLIBOBJS=''
MAINLIBS=''
MAJOR='1'
MAKEDIRS=''
MAKEFILES=''
MANTYPE=''
MINIOBJS=''
MINIRUBY=''
MINOR='9'
MKDIR_P=''
NM=''
NROFF=''
NULLCMD=''
OBJCOPY=''
OBJDUMP=''
OBJEXT=''
OUTFLAG=''
PACKAGE=''
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
PACKAGE_NAME=''
PACKAGE_STRING=''
PACKAGE_TARNAME=''
PACKAGE_URL=''
PACKAGE_VERSION=''
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
PKG_CONFIG=''
PLATFORM_DIR=''
POSTLINK=''
PREP=''
RANLIB=''
RDOCTARGET=''
RI_BASE_NAME=''
RM=''
RMALL=''
RMDIR=''
RMDIRS=''
RPATHFLAG=''
RUBYW_BASE_NAME='rubyw'
RUBYW_INSTALL_NAME=''
RUBY_BASE_NAME='ruby'
RUBY_INSTALL_NAME=''
RUBY_PROGRAM_VERSION='1.9.3'
RUBY_RELEASE_DATE='2013-06-27'
RUBY_SO_NAME=''
RUNRUBY=''
SET_MAKE=''
SHELL='/bin/sh'
SOLIBS=''
STATIC=''
STRIP=''
SYMBOL_PREFIX=''
TEENY='1'
TEST_RUNNABLE=''
THREAD_MODEL=''
TRY_LINK=''
UNIVERSAL_ARCHNAMES=''
UNIVERSAL_INTS=''
USE_RUBYGEMS=''
WERRORFLAG=''
WINDRES=''
XCFLAGS=''
XLDFLAGS=''
XRUBY=''
XRUBY_LIBDIR=''
XRUBY_RUBYHDRDIR=''
XRUBY_RUBYLIBDIR=''
ac_ct_CC=''
ac_ct_CXX=''
ac_ct_OBJCOPY=''
ac_ct_OBJDUMP=''
arch=''
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build='i386-apple-darwin13.0.0'
build_alias=''
build_cpu='i386'
build_os='darwin13.0.0'
build_vendor='apple'
cflags=' ${optflags} ${debugflags} ${warnflags}'
configure_args=''
cppflags=''
cxxflags=' ${optflags} ${debugflags} ${warnflags}'
datadir='${datarootdir}'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
debugflags=''
docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}'
dvidir='${docdir}'
exec=''
exec_prefix='NONE'
host='i386-apple-darwin13.0.0'
host_alias=''
host_cpu='i386'
host_os='darwin13.0.0'
host_vendor='apple'
htmldir='${docdir}'
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='${datarootdir}/info'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
mandir='${datarootdir}/man'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
optflags=''
pdfdir='${docdir}'
prefix='/Users/pedro/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p448'
program_transform_name='s&^&&'
psdir='${docdir}'
ridir=''
ruby_pc=''
ruby_version=''
rubyhdrdir=''
rubylibprefix=''
rubyw_install_name=''
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
setup=''
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sitearch=''
sitedir=''
sitehdrdir=''
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target='i386-apple-darwin13.0.0'
target_alias=''
target_cpu='i386'
target_os='darwin13.0.0'
target_vendor='apple'
try_header=''
vendordir=''
vendorhdrdir=''
warnflags=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE_URL ""
#define CANONICALIZATION_FOR_MATHN 1

configure: exit 77

Answer 1

I used @UnholySheep advice and resolved my problem.

First I found that gcc46 were installed:

$ gcc-4.6 -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc-4.6
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/Cellar/gcc46/4.6.4/libexec/gcc/x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0/4.6.4/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
Configured with: ../configure --build=x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/gcc46/4.6.4 --enable-languages=c --program-suffix=-4.6 --with-gmp=/usr/local/opt/gmp4 --with-mpfr=/usr/local/opt/mpfr2 --with-mpc=/usr/local/opt/libmpc08 --with-ppl=/usr/local/opt/ppl011 --with-cloog=/usr/local/opt/cloog-ppl015 --with-system-zlib --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-stage1-checking --enable-checking=release --enable-lto --disable-werror --enable-plugin --disable-nls --disable-multilib
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.6.4 (GCC)

I used locate gcc-4.6 and found that homebrew installed it under /usr/local/bin. Then created a symlink as suggested by @UnholySheep:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.6 /bin/gcc-4.6

Answer 2

This has been resolved. Run unset CC, then rvm remove 1.9.3, then rvm install 1.9.3.

@mpapis graciously provided the link to the bug report here: https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/issues/2331

Answer 3

there is a reported bug for your problem https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/issues/2331

Answer 4

I will type my answer since I've just looked for the same solution and foun it at another place:

The Xcode compiler is clang (llvm), but Ruby MRI 1.9 only supports gcc (another older but widely used compiler). While it’s true that MRI 1.9.3 is unofficially compatible with clang, there are some known issues and some modules do not compile correctly (Fibers).

Full clang support has been added with MRI 2.0.0.

So, if you really want to install MRI 1.9.3, you need to install gcc first:

brew update
brew install gcc

rvm install 1.9.3 --with-gcc=/usr/local/bin/gcc-6

This really helped me. Original answer