Maybe it is a rather old version of libxml2.
On Dec 17, 2007, at 21:38, Henry Wagner wrote: > I made some progress. I didn't have gcc installed on the machine. Now > I get further but still have trouble. I've attached mkmf.log > > Henry > > On 12/17/07, Dan Janowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What does the mkmf.log contain? >> >> On Dec 16, 2007, at 22:18, Henry Wagner wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running into some errors installing libxml-ruby on OS X 10.3.9. >>> I'm using ruby 1.8.6 >>> >>> Gonk:~/Desktop apple$ sudo gem install -r libxml-ruby >>> Building 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 -r libxml-ruby >>> checking for socket() in -lsocket... no >>> checking for gethostbyname() in -lnsl... no >>> checking for atan() in -lm... no >>> checking for atan() in -lm... 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. >>> >>> What are all the "no" lines about? I appear to have the 4 prerequest >>> libraries installed. >>> >>> Henry >>> _______________________________________________ >>> libxml-devel mailing list >>> libxml-devel@rubyforge.org >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> libxml-devel mailing list >> libxml-devel@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel >> > > > -- > Henry > http://www.henrywagner.org/ > <mkmf.log>_______________________________________________ > libxml-devel mailing list > libxml-devel@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel