[libxml-devel] error installing libxml-ruby v0.9.7 on Linux

[Stephen Bannasch]

>Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>>Is there a way to get more clues about the compilation problem?
>>
>>It definitely seems like libm and zlib are installed.
>>
>>mkmf.log:     http://gist.github.com/45885
>>gem_make.out: http://gist.github.com/45886
>
>It looks like ruby-devel is missing which is probably going to be 
>fairly problematic when trying to build a ruby extension.
>
>Tom

Thanks Tom,

What did you notice that led you to that diagnosis?

Ruby is installed from source.

I probably need to rebuild it to update references to some of the 
libraries. I think the server has been upgraded since I did the 
source install.