[Locomotive-users] Trouble installing gems

[Ryan Raaum]

On 1/18/07, Peter Gerard <peter at horsburgh.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  I was just trying to install the Curb gem (for Libcurl bindings) and got
> the following error... Is there some special trick for installing gems with
> Locomotive? I noticed in a previous message on this list that you added sudo
> so I tried that and got the same error as without.
>

Hi Peter,

Do you have the Apple dev tools installed?  If you don't have them
installed, you won't be able to compile everything (they don't come
installed by default).

Best,

-r

http://developer.apple.com/tools/


Thanks
>
> MacG5:~/Desktop/rails_app user$ sudo gem install curb
>
> We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
> Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
>
>     #1) Respect the privacy of others.
>     #2) Think before you type.
>     #3) With great power comes great responsibility.
>
> Password:
> Need to update 1 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
> .
> complete
> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
> *** 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.
>
> Provided configuration options:
>         --with-opt-dir
>         --without-opt-dir
>         --with-opt-include
>         --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
>         --with-opt-lib
>         --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
>         --with-make-prog
>         --without-make-prog
>         --srcdir=.
>         --curdir
>
>         --ruby=/Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsSept2006.locobundle/powerpc/bin/ruby
>         --with-curl-dir
>         --without-curl-dir
>         --with-curl-include
>         --without-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include
>         --with-curl-lib
>         --without-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib
>         --with-curllib
>         --without-curllib
>
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
> Gem files will remain installed in
> /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsSept2006.locobundle/powerpc/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-
> 0.1.2 for inspection.
>
>
> Results logged to
> /Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/standardRailsSept2006.locobundle/powerpc/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/curb-
> 0.1.2/ext/gem_make.out
>
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