From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-13T00:08:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with Gem

On Oct 12, 2007, at 01:00 , degreane wrote:
> On Oct 3, 6:02 pm, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
>> 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")'
>
> it says /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux/ruby.h
> I have the same problem while installing fxruby
> gem install fxruby

Do you have that file?

What other .h files exist in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux?

Can you attach gem_make.out?

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