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When I try to install Ruby from source, no matter what the version is, I am getting the following error.

$ ./configure



....
....
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for ld... ld
checking whether the linker is GNU ld... yes
checking whether gcc -E accepts -o... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ar... ar
checking for as... as
checking for objdump... objdump
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking for nm... nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
....
....
....
checking if make is GNU make... make: echo: Command not found
make: *** [all] Error 127
no
checking for safe null command for make... :
checking for nroff... /usr/bin/nroff`

I tried to fix the error by installing gcc and g++ but that doesn't help.

The full detailed log available here: https://gist.github.com/satnami/8ac0688c287a8d5c859c5ba064d9bfca

Extra details

Linux version:

Linux version 4.4.0-104-generic(buildd@lgw01-amd64-030 (gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) )

gcc version:

gcc version 4.8.5 (Ubuntu 4.8.5-2ubuntu1~14.04.1)

OpenssL version:

OpenSSL 1.0.2g-fips 1 Mar 2016

hallucinations
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It's better to include at least the relevant info here, such as what operating system and OS release you're using. From the gist output it seems you're using some version of GNU/Linux. If we knew which distribution (for example, Ubuntu) we could be more helpful.

Maybe you don't have echo available... what is your PATH set to? On many systems, echo lives in /bin/echo so make sure you have /bin on your PATH.

Note that running echo foo in your shell is not good enough, because your shell is likely bash which has a built-in echo. However, make will run /bin/sh not bash, and /bin/sh may be something like dash which doesn't have a built-in echo (depending on which Linux distribution you're using).

MadScientist
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  • thanks, I just updated the question, /bin is included and echo is running well in /bin/sh – Mhd Sami Al Mouhtaseb Jan 01 '18 at 16:07
  • This seems to be more a request for clarification (and so should be a comment) rather than an answer. At least, this answer now appears in the LQP review queue so I'm probably not the only person to think that. – francescalus Jan 01 '18 at 16:57
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The issue was because of missing file which is

/bin/echo

related to Makefile `echo -n' not working

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