I encountered a lot of errors related to make and Makefile when installing gems for a Rails project while working with Ruby 2.4.10. Problem was that development tools weren't properly installed.
I also found that the MSYS2 version that comes with Ruby Installer with DevKit is somehow flawed. With some gems it could not download packages: error: failed retrieving file 'mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils-2.30-5-any.pkg.tar.xz' from repo.msys2.org : The requested URL returned error: 404
I installed the newest version of MSYS2 and re-installed Ruby 2.4.10 without MSYS2, since I'm not sure how to change default path of MSYS with Ruby Installer.
running ridk install with option 3 threw errors like this: error: target not found: automake1.10
Solution was to remove the error throwing packets from the pacman command.
By default, Ruby Installer 2.4.10 with DevKit uses this command:
pacman -S --needed --noconfirm autoconf autoconf2.13 autogen automake-wrapper automake1.10 automake1.11 automake1.12 automake1.13 automake1.14 automake1.15 automake1.6 automake1.7 automake1.8 automake1.9 diffutils file gawk grep libtool m4 make patch pkg-config sed texinfo texinfo-tex wget mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git
To fix the problem, run:
ridk exec pacman -S --needed --noconfirm autoconf autoconf2.13 autogen automake-wrapper automake1.11 automake1.12 automake1.13 automake1.14 automake1.15 diffutils file gawk grep libtool m4 make patch pkg-config sed texinfo texinfo-tex wget mingw-w64-x86_64-binutils mingw-w64-x86_64-crt-git mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-libs mingw-w64-x86_64-headers-git mingw-w64-x86_64-libmangle-git mingw-w64-x86_64-libwinpthread-git mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-tools-git mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads-git
