Thursday wrote:
> Tony Targonski wrote:
> 
>> Gem installation of fcgi appears to be broken
>>
>> ____
>> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
>>     ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>> Gem files will remain installed in
>> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.5 for
>>  inspection.
>>   ruby extconf.rb install fcgi\nchecking for fcgiapp.h... no
>>
>> Results logged to c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fcgi-0.8.5/gem_make.out
>> `````
>>
>> Is there another way to get this installed?
>> --Tony
>>
>>
>>
> 
> I just noticed fcgi-0.8.6 was made available with important bugfixes. It 
> was checked into Debian unstable very recently.
> 
> Not sure but maybe the gem is/was being updated when you tried?
I get the same error, but it pretty much always happens to me for 
anything that builds a "native extension".  Wish I knew how to fix it.