* [sup-talk] Errors installing ncursesw
@ 2010-11-10 12:07 Shadowfirebird
2010-11-10 15:04 ` William Morgan
2010-11-10 15:46 ` Mark Alexander
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From: Shadowfirebird @ 2010-11-10 12:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sup-talk
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Given the other thread on how ncursesw cures those odd character strings, I've revisited this myself and I wonder if I could get suggestions.
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user@computer:$ sudo gem install ncursesw
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing ncursesw:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for ncurses.h... yes
checking for wmove() in -lncursesw... no
checking for wmove() in -lpdcurses... 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.
<<<<
Can anyone tell me where mkmf.log will be? Not in the directory where I ran gem install.
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 -- is that the problem?
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* Re: [sup-talk] Errors installing ncursesw
2010-11-10 12:07 [sup-talk] Errors installing ncursesw Shadowfirebird
@ 2010-11-10 15:04 ` William Morgan
2010-11-10 15:46 ` Mark Alexander
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From: William Morgan @ 2010-11-10 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sup-talk
Reformatted excerpts from Shadowfirebird's message of 2010-11-10:
> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking for locale.h... yes
> checking for ncurses.h... yes
> checking for wmove() in -lncursesw... no
> checking for wmove() in -lpdcurses... 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.
> <<<<
>
> Can anyone tell me where mkmf.log will be? Not in the directory where
> I ran gem install.
I'm not sure where mkmf.log is (I think newer versions of Rubygems are
better about telling you) but the above messages are the clue that you
need to apt-get install libncursesw-dev or something like it.
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William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
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* Re: [sup-talk] Errors installing ncursesw
2010-11-10 12:07 [sup-talk] Errors installing ncursesw Shadowfirebird
2010-11-10 15:04 ` William Morgan
@ 2010-11-10 15:46 ` Mark Alexander
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From: Mark Alexander @ 2010-11-10 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shadowfirebird; +Cc: sup-talk
Excerpts from Shadowfirebird's message of Wed Nov 10 07:07:40 -0500 2010:
> Can anyone tell me where mkmf.log will be? Not in the directory where I ran gem install.
If you run 'gem env' you'll see something like this:
...
- GEM PATHS:
- /var/lib/gems/1.8
...
Then in that directory you'll see a directory called 'gems' that will
contain the source directories for the various gems. mkmf.log should
be in the directory containing the failing gem. If you look at the
log, there will often be a clue pointing to a missing header file or
library. To fix this, you'll typically have to install some kind of
development library. For example, on Ubuntu, if you're getting
failures installing the ncursesw gem, you'll probably have to install
the libncursesw5-dev package. You can find a list of candidate
packages by doing 'aptitude search ncursesw'.
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