Subject: [sup-talk] Fwd: can't install sup on ubuntu 7.10

From: [email-masked] (Guillaume Quintard)
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:19:50 +0200

I sent a mail 2 days ago, but I didn't receive any message, fear the
mlist could be closed to non-sucribers I suscribed, and resend it :

hello, I'm on ubuntu, love gmail, and sup looks like what I'm looking
for, but I can't get  gem installing it.
here's what it says :

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shivan at selena:~$ sudo gem install sup -y
[sudo] password for shivan:
Need to update 2 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
..
complete
Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux)
 1. ferret 0.11.4 (ruby)
 2. ferret 0.11.4 (mswin32)
 3. ferret 0.11.3 (ruby)
 4. ferret 0.11.2 (ruby)
 5. Skip this gem
 6. Cancel installation
> 1
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 sup -y
extconf.rb:11:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
        from extconf.rb:11

Gem files will remain installed in
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.4 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.4/ext/gem_make.out
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I'm absolutely not familiar with ruby, and I'm pretty stucked here,
would you please help me ?

--
shivan

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From: [email-masked] (nicholas a. evans)
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:46:46 -0400

> for, but I can't get  gem installing it.
...
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

Do you have build-essential and ruby1.8-dev installed?

-- 
Nick

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:29:09 -0700

> mlist could be closed to non-sucribers I suscribed, and resend it :

Apparently the list was set to discard non-member postings. What a weird
default setting. Should be fixed now.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>