ruby-gnome2 fails to build from source

[Paul Dwerryhouse]

ruby-gnome2 is failing when I try to build it from the Ubuntu natty source package. I have installed all of the build-dependencies (using apt-get build-dep ruby-gnome2), however when building, it fails during the configure stage due to a missing libgtkmozembed.so.

Either this means a package is missing from the build-dependency, or gtkmozembed is no longer available, and the official ruby-gnome2 package was built on a machine with an old version of whatever package used to have libgtkmozembed.so, still installed on it.

Build logs:

 /var/tmp/deb/ruby-gnome2-0.19.3 $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor):
dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: source package ruby-gnome2
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.19.3-2ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Fabrice Coutadeur <email address hidden>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
 dpkg-source --before-build ruby-gnome2-0.19.3
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh --with xulrunner clean
   dh_testdir

...
...

checking for main() in -lxpcomglue... no
checking for main() in -lgtkembedmoz... no
extconf.rb: Leaving directory 'gtkmozembed'
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
        --ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/deb/ruby-gnome2-0.19.3'
make: *** [build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ruby-gnome2 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 7 20:26:25 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ruby-gnome2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Ubuntu 11.04 reached EOL in 2012. This package does build from source in newer releases. Therefore I am closing this bug.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases