[cairo] Installation of rcairo-1.10.0

Kouhei Sutou kou at cozmixng.org
Sat Aug 27 01:27:39 PDT 2011


Hi,

In <4E58A018.1040407 at t-online.de>
  "[cairo] Installation of rcairo-1.10.0" on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:43:20 +0200,
  Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen at t-online.de> wrote:

> in the context of installing GTK+ I try to install the
> latest version of cairo.
> 
> Running
> 
>          ruby  extconf.rb
> 
> I get a message saying that 'mkmf' is required but missing.
> Where do get/find 'mkmf'?
> 
> There are two more items required: 'rbconfig' and
> 'fileutils'. Could I get similiar messages for those?
> 
> I am using Debian lenny.

You need to install ruby1.8-dev or ruby1.9.1-dev for
mkmf.rb:

  % sudo aptitude install install ruby1.8-dev ruby1.9.1-dev

Thanks,
--
kou


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