From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-11-27T20:11:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Racc fails on install


On Nov 27, 2009, at 01:17 , Gordon Marsh wrote:

> I am very new to ruby but have got things up and running. I'm now trying
> to install racc and am hitting a serious problem which I can't resolve.

The racc runtime ships with ruby so if all you need is to run racc generated grammars, you're already taken care of.

> I'm running Windows XP and Ruby 186-26 and have updated to the lastest
> RubyGems.
> 
> When I run P:\>gem install c:racc-1.4.6.gem, I get back...
> 
>   Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>   ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>       Error instaling c:racc-1.4.6.gem:
>           ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> 
>   ruby extconf.rb install c:racc-1.4.6.gem
>   extconf.rb:3:in ``': No such file or directory - uname -p
> (Errno::ENOENT)
>           from extconf.rb:3

That looks simple enough. Explanation: we suck and don't run windows so we overlooked that. Comment out that line and run extconf.rb again, it should work. If that's the case, we can patch it up and release a fix.