On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:23:24 +0900, Mark Ryall wrote:

> I had some difficulty installing buildr too (actually a problem
> compiling rjb) but managed to get it working by installing some missing
> libraries:

I tried those, and still:

thufir@arrakis:~$ 
thufir@arrakis:~$ sudo gem install --source http://gems.tron.name/
gems.rubyforge.org/ buildr -y
[sudo] password for thufir:
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.tron.name/
gems.rubyforge.org/
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::GemNotFoundException)
    Could not find buildr (> 0) in any repository
thufir@arrakis:~$ 
thufir@arrakis:~$ 
thufir@arrakis:~$ sudo gem install --source http://gems.tron.name/
gems.rubyforge.org/ buildr -y
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.tron.name/
gems.rubyforge.org/
Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux)
 1. Antwrap 0.6.0 (ruby)
 2. Antwrap 0.6.0 (java)
 3. Skip this gem
 4. Cancel installation
> 1
Select which gem to install for your platform (i486-linux)
 1. rjb 1.1.3 (ruby)
 2. rjb 1.1.2 (x86-mswin32-60)
 3. rjb 1.1.2 (ruby)
 4. rjb 1.1.1 (x86-mswin32-60)
 5. rjb 1.1.1 (ruby)
 6. Skip this gem
 7. Cancel installation
> 1
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 --source http://gems.tron.name/
gems.rubyforge.org/ buildr -y
*** 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.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
extconf.rb:44: JAVA_HOME is not setted. (RuntimeError)


Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rjb-1.1.3 for 
inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/rjb-1.1.3/ext/gem_make.out
thufir@arrakis:~$ 




any thoughts?


thanks,

Thufir