From: "nicholas.henry" <nicholas.henry@...>
Date: 2006-10-12T11:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing libxml on osx as Gem

Upgrading to 1.8.4 resolved this.

Ross Bamford wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:35 +0900, nicholas.henry wrote:
> > I'm trying to install libxml on osx as a gem (Ruby 1.8.2). Any ideas on
> > how to resolve these issues? (please see output below)
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Nicholas
> >
> > Attempting local installation of 'libxml'
> > Local gem file not found: libxml*.gem
> > Attempting remote installation of 'libxml'
> > Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> > extconf.rb:64: undefined method `find_header' for main:Object
> > (NoMethodError)
> > ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
> >     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> > Gem files will remain installed in
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.3.8 for inspection.
> >   ruby extconf.rb install libxml\nchecking for socket() in -lsocket...
> > no
> > checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl... no
> > checking for atan() in -lm... no
> > checking for atan() in -lm... yes
> > checking for inflate() in -lz... yes
> > checking for iconv_open() in -liconv... yes
> > checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2... yes
> > checking for libxml/xmlversion.h... no
> >
>
> Hmm, find_header should be defined by mkmf, so I don't understand what's
> going on there. Maybe it's something to do with OSX - has anyone else
> seen this?
>
> Anyway, could you post up your ruby version? Also, the results of
> running this:
>
> $ ruby -rmkmf -e 'find_header("libxml/xmlversion.h", "/usr/include/libxml2")'
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk