From: Simon Schuster <significants@...>
Date: 2007-07-28T23:39:04+09:00
Subject: Re: issue with gem

I did it from repositories, so I'd assume that that would all be taken
care of. after reinstalling ruby, ruby1.8, and ruby1.9 again from the
repositories, and using gem to try and install fxruby  I again get
stopped after choosing an option on the menu, but this time with a
different error.

> 1
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
        --with-fox-dir
        --without-fox-dir
        --with-fox-include
        --without-fox-include=${fox-dir}/include
        --with-fox-lib
        --without-fox-lib=${fox-dir}/lib
        --with-fxscintilla-dir
        --without-fxscintilla-dir
        --with-fxscintilla-include
        --without-fxscintilla-include=${fxscintilla-dir}/include
        --with-fxscintilla-lib
        --without-fxscintilla-lib=${fxscintilla-dir}/lib

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.11 for inspection.


and of course I can't check mkmf.log, because it doesn't seem to exist anywhere.

On 7/28/07, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Simon Schuster <significants@gmail.com> wrote:
> > whenever I install something via gem which presents a menu of options
> > to me (versions, and 'ruby' vs 'mswin32' , I make my selection and it
> > gives me this:
> >
> > > 1
> > Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> > extconf.rb:4:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
> >         from extconf.rb:4
>
> It sort of looks like you built ruby without some necessary libraries
> and/or development tools.
>
> Todd
>
>