From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-04-26T02:50:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby -- Mack Framework

On Apr 25, 11:53 am, Vidar Hokstad <vidar.hoks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 7:22 am, Raveendran Jazzez <jazzezr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > C:\New Folder\trails\blog2>gem install do_sqlite3
> > 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 do_sqlite3
> > extconf.rb:1:in ``': No such file or directory - uname -sr
> > (Errno::ENOENT)
> >         from extconf.rb:1
>
> This looks like the do_sqlite3 gem depends on the "uname" command to
> identify what type of system it's running on.
> Unfortunately that doesn't work on Windows at all. Your best bet is to
> either track down the person who created
> that gem and see if he'll fix it, download the source and fix the gem
> yourself, or do what Mark Bates suggested and
> use one of the other supported databases. You could "fake it" by
> creating a script or executable named 'uname' or
> maybe even an alias, but if it takes actions based on the output
> generated by uname it's quite likely it'll
> contain other dependencies on Unix/Linux.
>

There's work being done for fixing DO and get proper Windows support.

That will be part of 0.9 release of DataMapper, nothing more to say
for now than read my blog :-)

http://blog.mmediasys.com/2008/04/24/contributions-speedup-and-less-quirks-for-us/

Regards,
--
Luis Lavena