From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-04T00:02:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Gem


On Oct 2, 2007, at 19:42 , David Siebert wrote:

> I am trying to install support for SQLite using Gem but I get this  
> error
> "Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> ruby extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby
> can't find header files for ruby."
> I do have ruby.h installed on my system but gem can not seem to  
> find it.
> Any suggestions?

What does this say:

ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts File.join(Config::CONFIG["rubylibdir"],  
Config::CONFIG["arch"], "ruby.h")'

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