[THRIFT-3890] Error with gem extension while installing Thrift

• Type: Question
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Ruby - Library

Environment

Ubuntu Trusty 14

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dave
• Created: 01/Aug/16 01:46
• Updated: 18/Oct/16 18:24

Description

I am building and installing Apache Thrift from source. When I run make, I get the following error about Gem native. How can I deal with this gem native extension error?

`Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file – mkmf (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
from extconf.rb:2:in `<main>'

Gem files will remain installed in /tmp/bundler20160731-25561-wpjc2k/eventmachine-1.2.0.1/gems/eventmachine-1.2.0.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /tmp/bundler20160731-25561-wpjc2k/eventmachine-1.2.0.1/gems/eventmachine-1.2.0.1/ext/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing eventmachine (1.2.0.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install eventmachine -v '1.2.0.1'` succeeds before bundling.`