From: Jonathan Wallace <jonathan.wallace@...>
Date: 2006-10-24T10:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Difficulty installing ruby gem termios

For future reference, this is the error one gets when gcc is not
installed.  *blush*

On Oct 23, 9:10 pm, "Jonathan Wallace" <jonathan.wall...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>  I've just put a fresh install of kubuntu 6.06.1i on my computer.  I'm
> trying to install the ruby gem termios-0.9.4, with gem 0.9.0 and ruby
> 1.8.4.  I've used the following commands to no avail.
> sudo gem install termios --include-dependencies -- --build-flags
> --with-opt-dir=/usr
> sudo gem install termios --include-dependencies
>
> I receive the same error in my mkmf.log file every time.  Here's the my
> mkmf.log file from one run:
> have_header: checking for termios.h... -------------------- no
>
> "gcc -E -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux -I/usr/include  -Wall -g -O2
>  -fPIC  conftest.c -o conftest.i"
> checked program was:
> /* begin */
> #include <termios.h>
> /* end */
>
> --------------------
>
> I've used adept (the graphical package manager for kde) to install
> libtermios-ruby, libtermios-ruby1.8, ruby1.8, ruby1.8-dev, and
> libc6-dev.  My mkmf.log shows that I'm missing the termios.h file.  I
> can see that I have a termios.h file located in /usr/include though,
> from the results above, I am assuming it is not the correct one.  I've
> searched google for termios.h, the package contents for ubuntu for
> termios.h
> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=termios.h&...)
> and I have no clue what to try next.
>
> Any ideas?  Am I missing something simple here?
> Thanks in advance,
>   Jonathan