From: Suraj Kurapati <snk@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T02:20:19+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-shout installation issue

Vivek wrote:
>   I am trying to install ruby-shout(used to serve audio to icecast
> server) .I have libshout,vorbis and liboggz
> But I get this error
> 
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> Gem files will remain installed in
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-shout-2.1 fo
> r inspection.
> 
> 
> Results logged to
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ruby-shout-2.1/ext/gem_make.out
> 
> I am not sure what the "failed to build native extension " means.

That means the ruby-shout gem comes with some C code. The gem 
installation was trying to compile that C code but the compilation 
failed for some reason. That reason is shown in that gem_make.out log 
file.

Usually the problem is that you're missing some C libraries. In some 
GNU/Linux distros, it's common that you're missing a C compiler 
altogether because it's not installed by default.

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