error while installing ruby gem

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I am trying to install a ruby gem. I am getting this error.

C:\>gem install racc
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing racc:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb install racc
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

I have searched this site, but found nothing about it. I have googled too, and found only that updating ruby gems should solve the problem, but it did not.

I have ruby gems 1.2.0 and ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32], Windows 2003.

No. Looks like that is unix command. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uname — Željko Filipin
– Željko Filipin, Commented Jul 16, 2009 at 10:57
I was thinking about how "uname -p" shows up in the error message and that perhaps it not being present on your system could have caused the error. — Inshallah
– Inshallah, Commented Jul 16, 2009 at 11:02
I understood your comment. :) It gave me an idea to install msys and cygwin to see if it will work then, but no luck. — Željko Filipin
– Željko Filipin, Commented Jul 16, 2009 at 13:02

Jim McKerchar · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-20 14:18:07Z

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This may not be directly related to this post but it helped me and i hope may help others who have had the "Failed to build gem native extension." error when installing gems on Windows.

The guys over at rubyinstaller.org provide a DevKit (http://rubyinstaller.org/download.html) containing GCC, Make and Sh for use when installing Gems. I followed the instructions for installing (http://wiki.github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/development-kit) and hey presto... gems that previously wouldn't install now install with no errors.

I've tested installing the RACC gem and had no problems (although i have no previous experience with this gem; maybe it has been fixed since.) I've also tested with RCOV (which i've never been able to get working correctly) and have managed to install it with no errors!

Hope this helps someone out there ;)

answered Apr 20, 2010 at 14:18

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Daniel Lucraft · Accepted Answer · 2009-07-16 13:44:17Z

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The offending line in the extconf.rb file in the racc gem is this:

ENV["ARCHFLAGS"] = "-arch #{`uname -p` =~ /powerpc/ ? 'ppc' : 'i386'}"

Since you are not using a PowerPC (unless your setup is exceptionally unusual :) ), you can replace this line with:

ENV["ARCHFLAGS"] = "-arch i386"

I don't know if it will compile successfully now, but at least you'll be past this error.

answered Jul 16, 2009 at 13:44

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Željko Filipin Over a year ago

Thanks. That fixed the error, but I get another one this time. :)

Željko Filipin Over a year ago

More info: Download racc-1.4.6.tgz from rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=7299. Extract. Change ENV["ARCHFLAGS"] line in racc-1.4.6\ext\racc\cparse\extconf.rb. Open command prompt at racc-1.4.6 folder. Execute rake gem. in command prompt go to racc-1.4.6\pkg. Execute gem install racc.

Željko Filipin Over a year ago

The next error was that nmake is not installed. After I installed it, I got error that cl is not installed. I give up.

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