From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T19:22:00+09:00
Subject: Re: missing header stdio.h??? (when updating hpricot gem)


On 29 Aug 2008, at 01:48, Doug Glidden wrote:

> I just ran 'gem update' this evening, and during the update for  
> hpricot,
> I got a rather surprising error.  Here's the complete output from gem:
>
Do you have a working C compiler installed? Sounds like you don't

Fred
> -----
> Updating installed gems
> Updating hpricot
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)
>    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>
> d:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb update hpricot
> checking for stdio.h... no
> *** 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
>        --srcdir=.
>        --curdir
>        --ruby=d:/ruby/bin/ruby
>
>
> Gem files will remain installed in
> d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.161 for inspection.
> Results logged to
> d:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.6.161/ext/fast_xs/ 
> gem_make.out
> -----
>
> Neither mkmf.log nor gem_make.out contains any additional helpful
> information.  This only seems to happen with hpricot (I have manually
> updated other gems successfully).  It sounds like there might be a lib
> missing from the distribution of hpricot.
>
> I don't actually use that gem at present, so it's not critical, but it
> piqued my interest, and it's slightly annoying because gem aborts
> immediately instead of attempting to update the other gems.
>
> - Doug
> -- 
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>