Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:21, Nabs Kahn wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to install Mechanize on a WinXP machine, and I am getting
>> this error:
>>
>> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension
>>
>> ruby extconf.rb install mechanize
>> extconf.rb:3:in ``': No such file or directory - uname -p
>> (Errno::ENOENT) from extconf.rb:3
> 
> What was the full error?

C:\Documents and Settings\Nabs>gem install mechanize
Install required dependency nokogiri? [Yn]  y
Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)
 1. nokogiri 1.3.0 (x86-mingw32)
 2. nokogiri 1.3.0 (x86-mswin32)
 3. nokogiri 1.3.0 (java)
 4. nokogiri 1.3.0 (ruby)
 5. Skip this gem
 6. Cancel installation
> 2
Install required dependency racc? [Yn]  y
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 mechanize
extconf.rb:3:in ``': No such file or directory - uname -p 
(Errno::ENOENT)
        from extconf.rb:3


Gem files will remain installed in 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/racc-1.4.6 for
 inspection.
Results logged to 
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/racc-1.4.6/ext/racc/cparse/gem_
make.out
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