[DRE-maint] Bug#533304: rubygems1.8: "gem install" points make to non-existing /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin9.2.2

[Andreas Krüger]

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Package: rubygems1.8
Version: 1.2.0-3
Severity: important

Hello,

I'm trying to do use "gem install" to compile native stuff. It does not work.

I found that include files are not expected by the compilation process at the
place where they actually reside. The compilation process's expectancies are
governed by a Makefile, which, on my system, has

In detail:

"gem install sqlite3-ruby" fails, leaving the following log file content in
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_api/gem_make.out :

> /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb install sqlite3-ruby
> checking for fdatasync() in -lrt... yes
> checking for sqlite3.h... no
>
> make
> make: *** No rule to make target `ruby.h', needed by `sqlite3_api_wrap.o'.
> Stop.

This include file ruby.h is available as /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux/ruby.h.
Looking at the Makefile generated by the gem installation process, I think it is
looked for in /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin9.2.2 instead. I verified this
by providing /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin9.2.2/ruby.h. When doing this,
make apparently finds "ruby.h". It now stumbles over "defines.h" not being present.

I think the following lines of
   /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-ruby-1.2.4/ext/sqlite3_api/Makefile
are part of the problem:

> topdir = /opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin9.2.2
> INCFLAGS = -I. -I. -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-darwin9.2.2 -I.
> arch = i686-darwin9.2.2
> sitearch = i686-darwin9.2.2
> vendorarch = i686-darwin9.2.2


As an attempted workaround, at my trusted bash prompt, I installed rubygems from
scratch. This did not help. I continued to encounter the same problem.

Even though it did not help, here is what I tried:

aptitude purge rubygems1.8
   # which also removed a whole lot of other things.
   # Mainly left was
aptitude install ruby rdoc
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/57643/rubygems-1.3.4.tgz -O - |
   tar xzf -
cd rubygems-1.3.4
export GEM_HOME=/usr/local/lib/ruby1.8/gems
ruby setup.rb --prefix=/usr/local/lib/ruby1.8
export RUBYLIB=/usr/local/lib/ruby1.8/lib


Regards, and thank you for providing fine software,

Andreas Krüger


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rubygems1.8 depends on:
ii  rdoc1.8                       1.8.7.72-3 Generate documentation from Ruby s
ii  ruby1.8                       1.8.7.72-3 Interpreter of object-oriented scr

rubygems1.8 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rubygems1.8 suggests:
ii  build-essential               11.4       Informational list of build-essent
ii  ruby1.8-dev                   1.8.7.72-3 Header files for compiling extensi
pn  rubygems-doc                  <none>     (no description available)

- -- no debconf information



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