I am running Ubuntu 7.1 and getting the following error when trying to install rcov. What do i do? dev@localhost:~$ sudo gem install rcov Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux) 1. rcov 0.8.1.2.0 (mswin32) 2. rcov 0.8.1.2.0 (ruby) 3. rcov 0.8.1.1.0 (ruby) 4. rcov 0.8.1.1.0 (mswin32) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation> 2Building 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 rcov extconf.rb:1:in `require'': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError) from extconf.rb:1 Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0 for inspection. Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0/ext/rcovrt/gem_make.out dev@localhostt:~$ -- Ikenna C. Nwaiwu Linkedin: Ikenna Nwaiwu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
No worries. Was able to get it to work with sudo apt-get install rcov Cheers Ikenna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ikenna Nwaiwu <ikenna4u-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:42 AM Subject: error installing rcov gem on ubuntu 7.1 To: rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org I am running Ubuntu 7.1 and getting the following error when trying to install rcov. What do i do? dev@localhost:~$ sudo gem install rcov Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux) 1. rcov 0.8.1.2.0 (mswin32) 2. rcov 0.8.1.2.0 (ruby) 3. rcov 0.8.1.1.0 (ruby) 4. rcov 0.8.1.1.0 (mswin32) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation> 2Building 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 rcov extconf.rb:1:in `require'': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError) from extconf.rb:1 Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0 for inspection. Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rcov-0.8.1.2.0/ext/rcovrt/gem_make.out dev@localhostt:~$ -- Ikenna C. Nwaiwu Linkedin: Ikenna Nwaiwu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I think the recommended way is to do the following sudo apt-get install build-essential Then install gems the normal way. Otherwise you will be dependent on ubuntu repositories for all your gems with native extensions, and you may be stuck a few versions behind (or completely without -- is Nokogiri, for example, available at all yet?) -- Mark. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---