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Clearer call to action (thanks @trevorturk)
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sstephenson committed Apr 23, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -236,25 +236,26 @@ fix_directory_permissions() {

require_gcc() {
local gcc="$(locate_gcc || true)"

if [ -z "$gcc" ]; then
local esc=$'\033'
{ echo
echo "ERROR: This package must be compiled with GCC, but ruby-build couldn't"
echo "${esc}[1mERROR${esc}[0m: This package must be compiled with GCC, but ruby-build couldn't"
echo "find a suitable \`gcc\` executable on your system. Please install GCC"
echo "and try again."
echo

if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then
local esc=$'\033'
echo "Apple no longer includes the official GCC compiler with Xcode as of"
echo "version 4.2. Instead, the \`gcc\` executable is a symlink to \`llvm-gcc\`,"
echo "a modified version of GCC which outputs LLVM bytecode."
echo "${esc}[1mDETAILS${esc}[0m: Apple no longer includes the official GCC compiler with Xcode"
echo "as of version 4.2. Instead, the \`gcc\` executable is a symlink to"
echo "\`llvm-gcc\`, a modified version of GCC which outputs LLVM bytecode."
echo
echo "For most programs the \`llvm-gcc\` compiler works fine. However,"
echo "versions of Ruby older than 1.9.3-p125 are incompatible with"
echo "\`llvm-gcc\`. To build older versions of Ruby you must have the official"
echo "GCC compiler installed on your system."
echo
echo "You can install the official GCC compiler on OS X using these binary"
echo "${esc}[1mTO FIX THE PROBLEM${esc}[0m: Install the official GCC compiler using these"
echo "packages: ${esc}[4mhttps://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/downloads${esc}[0m"
echo
echo "You will need to install the official GCC compiler to build older"
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