Error installing RedCloth

Question

I'm getting this erron when trying to install RedCloth on openSuse:

sudo gem install RedCloth
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing RedCloth:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
creating Makefile

make
sh: make: nie znaleziono polecenia


Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-4.2.3 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RedCloth-4.2.3/ext/redcloth_scan/gem_make.out

I tried to google this out and triend everything. So I need help with that.

Answer 1

If Google's Polish translation is correct, then you don't have make installed on your machine.

Try entering which make. If you see nothing, then you need to handle that first. I'm not sure the name of the package you need in OpenSuse. You should be able to search in Yum (Yast? whatever OpenSuse's package manager is called...) for something like Debian's 'build-essential' package.

Edit: In OpenSuse, the package you need seems to be called "C/C++ Development" (or "C/C++ Compiler and Tools"). See this thread for some pointers: http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/413553-build-essential.html

I don't know OpenSuse, but if it's anything like Debian, you can probably also install Ruby gems (and Perl and Python modules) directly from your package manager. This can be good and bad. Good because the package manager takes better care of dependencies and uninstalling (on average) than you would on your own. Bad because the distro will often have older versions than you might be able to get yourself. Still, it's an option to consider.

Answer 2

If using Windows and RubyInstaller.org, I believe you need to install the devkit they provide.