rvm安装ruby 1.8.4 openssl问题

Question

I am trying to install ruby 1.8.4 and rails 2.3.2 on mac osx. This is what is available on hosting I have purchased. I am facing couple of issues related to installation. I was trying to install ruby 1.8.4 using rvm. When I try to use below command:

rvm install 1.8.4

I get below error:

openssl_missing.h:68: error: conflicting types for 'HMAC_CTX_copy' /opt/local/include/openssl/hmac.h:102: error: previous declaration of 'HMAC_CTX_copy' was here openssl_missing.h:92: error: conflicting types for 'EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy' /opt/local/include/openssl/evp.h:502: error: previous declaration of 'EVP_CIPHER_CTX_copy' was here make[1]: *** [ossl_cipher.o] Error 1

So I started searching a week ago. Tried almost everything. Here are few links I have already tried:

Ruby and "You must recompile Ruby with OpenSSL support or change the sources in your Gemfile"

RVM ruby on rails issue OpenSSL

Openssl error message on install log when installing ruby 1.9.3 on Mac OSX 10.6.8

Error running 'make -j2' when running rvm install ruby-2.0.0-p247

I was able to install ruby using below command:

rvm install 1.8.4 --with-openssl-dir=/opt/local

but when I tried rvm list. It was saying broken next to 1.8.4. After that I was not able to install rails.

I saw some posts on github that says that ruby installation requires openssl version 0.9.8. But when I try installing openssl using below command:

rvm pkg install openssl

It installs openssl 1.0.1.

Few things want to make clear:

I had installed macports initially and then I had installed homebrew as well. which may be conflicting. But I am expecting they are not. But just to try I tried removing macports and reinstalling rvm. But when I tried below command :

rvm install 1.8.4

rvm installed macports for me. Not sure why.

Can anybody suggest me what I am missing here or may be I am doing it completely in a wrong way?

Answer 1

All ruby 1.8.* series is no more supported, you should drop the hosting that provides unsupported ruby version and request refund.

The currently supported ruby versions (as for today) are:

• 1.9.3
• 2.0.0

They both are mostly compatible (noticable exception is default UTF8 encoding in 2.0.0 ).

If you use RVM then you can use latest stable ruby release with this two commands:

rvm get stable # update RVM
rvm use ruby --install --default

the --install will install ruby if missing, and the --default will set it as default for new shell sessions.