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Running rvm install ruby-1.9.3-p286 gives me this error:

Error running 'make -j 9', please read /Users/epeterson/.rvm/log/ruby-1.9.3-p286/make.log
There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.
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This took me forever to hunt down. Was trying different versions of make, gcc, etc.

It turns out the format of the rvm_make_flags environment variable has changed from a string to an array and was not well communicated or documented. This may apply to all rvm_* env variables, not sure.

Check your ~/.rvmrc and project/path/.rvmrc. 

# before
export rvm_make_flags="-j 9"

# after
export rvm_make_flags=(-j 9)

After making this change everything compiled cleanly.

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  • I am having the same exact issue. I am a command line noob, how would i go about making the fix that you suggest. – abritez Jan 28 '13 at 23:06
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I'm pretty new at this as well. I was not sure about the directions above, but I had a related problem.

What I found is that I just needed to restart Terminal.

I then used $ type rvm | head -1 and it spit out rvm is a function. Which is what you want to get according to the great article found here:

http://www.moncefbelyamani.com/how-to-install-xcode-homebrew-git-rvm-ruby-on-mac/

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Jason
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run rvm requirements and it would show all necessary components from RVM to work properly,

on my box, it shows(partial)

# For ruby:
brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42 libtool pkg-config openssl readline libyaml    sqlite libxml2 libxslt libksba

so I just run the command, and after than, issue

rvm install 1.9.3
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