whenever I install something via gem which presents a menu of options
to me (versions, and 'ruby' vs 'mswin32' , I make my selection and it
gives me this:

> 1
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
extconf.rb:4:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
        from extconf.rb:4

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.11 for inspection.


Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.11/ext/fox16/gem_make.out

(gem_make.out is empty, by the way. er, well, 1 byte.)

not sure what's going on... gem installs fine when there's no option
menu, but maybe that's a misleading correlation, no clue... new to
ruby and programming in general here.


erm, another thing, somewhat ruby-related... is that scite won't let
me use 'irb' like it's supposed to, and I have no idea why. it says
this:

>irb
sh: irb: not found
>Exit code: 127


thanks! and btw- WOW, what an amazing community. keep it up. :)