From: "Terry <" <nospam4.me@...[remove.me]>
Date: 2004-04-16T04:29:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-devel

Perhaps I should have addressed this issue on a Mandrake forum.  I
downgraded to ruby-1.8.0-4mdk, et al.; problem solved.

Terry

Terry wrote:

> I am trying to install FXRuby-1.0.28 which tells me it can't find Ruby's
> header files.  So I presume I must install ruby-devel.
> 
> I have ruby-1.8.0 installed, but when I try to install ruby-devel-1.8.0, I
> get:
> 
>         devel(libcrypt)   is needed by ruby-devel-1.8.0-7mdk
>         devel(libdl)   is needed by ruby-devel-1.8.0-7mdk
>         devel(libm)   is needed by ruby-devel-1.8.0-7mdk
> 
> Now from what I can tell libcrypt, libdl, and libm are provided by glibc. 
> I have glibc-2.3.1-10.1.91mdk & glibc-devel-2.3.1-10.1.91mdk installed.
> 
> My question is, What exactly is ruby-devel looking for?  libcrypt.h? 
> There is no glibc sub-directory in my #include directory.
> 
> In my #lib directory, I have:
> libcrypt.so
> libcrypto.so
> libcrypto.so.0.9.6
> libcrypto.so.0
> libcrypto.so.0.9.7
> 
> What in the world is devel(libcrypt)?
> 
> TIA,
> Terry
>