From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-24T15:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: gem install fcgi does not work

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:43:37PM +0900, Joshua Muheim wrote:
> And I'm having problem with installing fcgi using gems (I'm logged in as
> root):
> 
> koelsch:/home/josh # gem install fcgi
> Attempting local installation of 'fcgi'
> Local gem file not found: fcgi*.gem
> Attempting remote installation of 'fcgi'
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> 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/fcgi-0.8.7 for inspection.
>   ruby extconf.rb install fcgi\nchecking for fcgiapp.h... no
> checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no

It's trying to link against the C fastcgi development kit. You can download
this from http://www.fastcgi.com/#TheDevKit and build it (or else your base
system may have this available as a pre-built binary)

I believe the ruby fcgi package does include a pure-ruby implementation,
which it's supposed to use as a fallback, but I suspect the gem packaging
hasn't allowed for this.

> In addition I wasn't able yet to install apache2-mod_fastcgi, but I
> don't think this is responsible for this behavior?

No it's unrelated. I recommend you use apache2-mod_fcgid though anyway; this
is a drop-in replacement for mod_fastcgi which is actually being maintained.

Brian.