Rails - Dec 2005 - gem update fails with "checking for fcgiapp.h... no"

Hello,
Trying to do gem update on my existing system that''s been working fine 
for a couple of months. This is what I get:
====================================bash-2.05b# gem update
Upgrading installed gems...
Attempting remote upgrade of fcgi
Attempting remote installation of ''fcgi''
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1 for inspection.
  ruby extconf.rb update\nchecking for fcgiapp.h... no
checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no


Results logged to 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/ext/gem_make.out

bash-2.05b# more 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.6.1/ext/gem_make.out
ruby extconf.rb update
checking for fcgiapp.h... no
checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no
====================================
Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks for any help...

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solved it...
fcgipp.h was in /usr/local/include
symlinking to /usr/include solved it.

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GoranTornqvist wrote:
> solved it...
> fcgipp.h was in /usr/local/include
> symlinking to /usr/include solved it.

I do not understand what you mean by ''symlinking'' could you
please
explain?
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Bob Smyph wrote:
> GoranTornqvist wrote:
>> solved it...
>> fcgipp.h was in /usr/local/include
>> symlinking to /usr/include solved it.
> 
> 
> I do not understand what you mean by ''symlinking'' could
you please
> explain?
He made a symbolic link ("symlink") to that file.  Since this is an OS
concept and not a Rails one, I think I should refer you to Google before 
we go off topic.

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Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Bob Smyph wrote:
>> GoranTornqvist wrote:
>>> solved it...
>>> fcgipp.h was in /usr/local/include
>>> symlinking to /usr/include solved it.
>> 
>> 
>> I do not understand what you mean by ''symlinking''
could you please
>> explain?
> 
> He made a symbolic link ("symlink") to that file.  Since this is
an OS
> concept and not a Rails one, I think I should refer you to Google before 
> we go off topic.

In my case the problem was:
# cc -E -I. -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux -I.  -fno-strict-aliasing -g 
-g -O2  -fPIC  conftest.c -o conftest.i

bash: cc: command not found

The solution is to install gcc
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Marek Veber wrote:
> The solution is to install gcc
and libc6-dev

My case is Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS (hardy)
use:

apt-get install rubygems libc6-dev gcc libfcgi-dev ruby1.8-dev
gem update
gem install rails -y

not only:
apt-get install rubygems
...
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