From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-02-26T18:44:13+09:00
Subject: Re: fastthread installation fails - debian - w or w/o gem

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:40:05PM +0900, paukul@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> iam trying to install fastthread, but it fails with the message:
> ---------
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> extconf.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
>         from extconf.rb:1

For Debian/Ubuntu, you need to install the ruby1.8-dev package to get mkmf
(which is a standard part of Ruby, it's just that Debian broke up the core
Ruby into shrapnel packages)

HTH,

Brian.