Installing ruby-1.9.3-p545 stuck

Question

I want to run a rails app which prompts the following, when I cd in the repo:

rake ruby-1.9.3-p545 is not installed.
To install do: 'rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p545'

I currently use ruby-2.1.1, but for some reason I get an error and I just want to see if it's the ruby version that is the problem. When I run rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p545 the process starts and gets stuck on Installing required packages: gcc46. It's been on this step for more than 3 hours now and I doubt it will change.

I tried to install gcc46 from homebrew with brew install gcc46. This is the output:

==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-4.6.4/gcc-4.6.4.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/gcc46-4.6.4.tar.bz2
==> ../configure --build=x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/gcc46/4.6.4 --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-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 --enable-multilib
==> make bootstrap

And then the same - nothing happens for hours.

Answer 1

The problem seems to be gcc46.

You can try this: rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p545 --with-gcc=clang to use Clang instead and see if that helps.