From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-11-28T08:26:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Racc fails on install

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:01:32PM +0900, Gordon Marsh wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> Thanks for your quick response. I'm actually trying to get Cucumber up 
> and running which requires a newer version of racc (or one of its 
> dependencies does I forget), so that's why I need to install the racc 
> gem again.
> 
> If I edit the extconf.rb file as you suggest, then execute the following 
> line I get the following message with no error.
> 
> P:\>ruby 
> "C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\racc-1.4.6\ext\racc\cparse\extconf.rb"
> install C:racc-1.4.6.gem
> creating Makefile
> 
> Is that all the info I can give you at the moment? I take it I need to 
> await your next patch to install?

Can you run gem -v?  I highly doubt that cucumber needs a newer version
of the racc runtime to work.  I suspect you're running an older version
of rubygems that doesn't know about development dependencies.

That's my hunch anyway.

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