From: Bill McNeill <billmcn@...>
Date: 2007-01-15T11:05:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.2 install missing mkmf.rb on Red Hat Linux

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.  I meant to say "..would apply to a Red
Hat distribution" since Ubuntu is a Debian variant.

matt wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:35 +0900, Bill McNeill wrote:
> > My version of Ruby on Red Hat Linux is missing mkmf.rb.
> >
> > $ irb
> > irb(main):001:0> require 'mkmf'
> > LoadError: no such file to load -- mkmf
> >         from (irb):1:in `require'
> >         from (irb):1
> >
> > $ ls /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mkmf.rb
> > ls: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mkmf.rb: No such file or directory
> >
> > I was able to find reference to a similar bug in Ubuntu where the fix
> > was to install a ruby-dev package, but I don't think that would apply
> > to a Linux distribution.
>
> Isn't Ubuntu a Linux Distro?
>
> > Is mkmf.rb a post-1.8.2 file, or is this a bug?
> >
> > What's the best fix?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> Which version of RH are you using, and which packaging method are you
> using to install?
>
> Here's a partial of how Fedora breaks up it's RPM's
> Being that RH and FC are broken from the same branch, this might give
> you a clue of which packages you need to install.
>
> ruby.i386
> ruby-devel.i386
> ruby-docs.i386
> ruby-irb.i386
> ruby-libs.i386
> ruby-mode.i386
> ruby-rdoc.i386
> ruby-ri.i386
>
> I wouldn't worry about filing a bug on this.  They made an architectural
> decision to  proceed this way on purpose.  They are aware of it being
> broken up into several units, and a bug report would just be closed out
> as not a bug.
>
> If you personally don't like it that way, then I would agree with
> building from source, but a simple package install should get you going.
> 
> Matt