[DRE-maint] [Bug 591575] Re: rubygems1.8 does not work - apppears misconfigured

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Not really: we can't guess which dependencies are required to build the
gem you want to built.

ruby1.8-dev is already a Suggest for rubygems1.8, which sounds
reasonable: if you want to install a non-native gem, you don't need it.

For me, the situation is fine, and it is the responsibility of the
rubygems user to install the correct build dependencies. So marking as
Invalid.

** Changed in: libgems-ruby (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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rubygems1.8 does not work - apppears misconfigured
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591575
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Status in “libgems-ruby” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
I installed ruby 4.5, and rubygems1.8 from the Synaptic Package Manager, and tried to do
  sudo gem install ruby-debug, and am getting error messages that are beyond my capacity to fix.  The transcript from the terminal follows:

myuser at diglit-desktop:~$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i486-linux]
myuser at diglit-desktop:~$ sudo gem install ruby-debug
[sudo] password for myuser: 
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing ruby-debug:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb
extconf.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- mkmf (LoadError)
	from extconf.rb:1


Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/linecache-0.43 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/linecache-0.43/ext/gem_make.out
myuser at diglit-desktop:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: rubygems (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun  9 14:15:12 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libgems-ruby