On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Stephen Bannasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 6:59 PM -0800 2/27/08, Trans wrote: > >On Feb 27, 1:43 pm, Calvin Bascom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I ran into this as well installing the 0.5.3 gem on both CentOS and > >> Fedora platforms. To get it working I had to rebuild the .so file > >> manually after the gem install: > >> > > > cd /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.3 > > > ruby xml/libxml/extconf.rb > >> make > >> make install > >> make distclean > >> > >> The make install step copied the libxml_so.so file to the correct > >> directory whereas the gem installation didn't for some reason. Don't > >> know what causes this, but it at least worked for me after doing the > above. > > > >I'm glad someone has tried that new gem out finally -- this is a > >"beta" release (obviously). > > > >In contrast to setup.rb, the Gem is not suppose to copy the .so, > >rather the loadpath should point to it. (At least that's what Eric > >Hodel told me was the proper way). Interestingly, you used make > >install to copy the .so over into the proper lib/ directory. > > > >I figured out the problem with the gem. In the gemspec, the extensions > >field isn't getting set properly, so it can't find the extconf.rb. > >Will fix shortly. > > I just installed the 0.5.3 gem on Leopard 10.5.2 yesterday and it still has > the same problem -- but the solution described above doesn't work ...
Just released 0.5.4 that should fix this problem. > On my system the gem is located here: > > /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/libxml-ruby-0.5.3 > > The location of extconf.rb is here: > > ./ext/libxml/extconf.rb > > Executing that file produces this error: > > $ ruby ext/libxml/extconf.rb > checking for socket() in -lsocket... *** ext/libxml/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. Does the mkmf.log provide any clues? T. _______________________________________________ libxml-devel mailing list libxml-devel@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/libxml-devel
