Bug #9705: Installing ruby 2.1.1 fails while compiling (after: rvm install 2.1.1)

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: linux
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 2.1.1
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: REQUIRED

[ahibal (Ahilleas Balaktsis)]

Possible relevance with cpu recognition (CPU is amd athlon 1200 32bit)

[[https://gist.github.com/ahibal/f41ee307085f35709704#file-make-log]]

last lines of make.log:

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compiling addr2line.c
compiling dmyext.c
linking miniruby
make: *** [.rbconfig.time] Illegal instruction
++ return 2
There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.

[athlon_user (C. A.)]

I have exactly the same issue with my Athlon XP 2600+.
The compilation process stops every time at the same point as mentioned by Ahilleas Balaktsis, no matter if I compile with rvm or use the Ruby sources directly. Trying to compile with CFLAGS="-march=athlon" or CFLAGS='-m32' CXXFLAGS='-m32' LDFLAGS='-m32' does not help either.

The same problem occurs when trying to compile Ruby 2.1.2.
Compiling the mentioned Ruby versions with an old Pentium M works flawlessly. Might be because Athlon XP CPUs do not support SSE2?

[phasis68 (Heesob Park)]

Athlon XP processor does not have SSE2 support.
SSE2 support was added with the Athlon 64 processor.
But the generated Makefile has XCFLAGS includes -msse2 -mfpmath=sse

It seems that the configure script failed to check whether -msse2 -mfpmath=sse is accepted on the linux build on Athlon XP.

[athlon_user (C. A.)]

Great tip, thanks a lot Heesob Park!
In line 67 in Ruby 2.1.2 Makefile, one simply has to change -msse2 to -msse, and compilation will complete successfully on Athlon XP processor.
I hope this will get fixed in future releases.

Regards,
C. A.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: REQUIRED

Hello,

Could you try with trunk? I wonder if this is already fixed on trunk.

[athlon_user (C. A.)]

I tried it via rvm, but it still does not work, see this thread on github:
https://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/issues/2850#issuecomment-45339676

Regards,
Carsten

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Related to Bug #10120: TestSprintf#test_float still an issue added

[hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA)]

• Status changed from Open to Feedback

Ruby 2.1 was EOL status. Can you try to build with Ruby 2.3 or 2.4?

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Feedback to Closed