Error installing libxml-ruby (1.1.4)

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Hi, I’m trying to install libxml-ruby 1.1.4, but its giving error, I
have searched on google tried all types of solutions I found, but it
still giving the same error

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

    /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb

extconf.rb:6: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)

Gem files will remain installed in
/home/phanindra/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.4 for inspection.
Results logged to
/home/phanindra/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.4/ext/libxml/gem_make.out

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On Jun 17, 2012, at 4:41 AM, “pahnin s.” [email protected] wrote:

/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
extconf.rb:6: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)

What have you tried? Problem with libxml-ruby 1.1.4 · Issue #1722 · rubygems/bundler · GitHub is
the first thing I found and fit in with my instincts well.

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On Jun 17, 2012, at 03:41, pahnin s. wrote:

Gem files will remain installed in
/home/phanindra/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.4 for inspection.
Results logged to
/home/phanindra/.gem/ruby/1.9.1/gems/libxml-ruby-1.1.4/ext/libxml/gem_make.out

Why are you using such an old version of libxml-ruby? 1.1.3 (the last
tag in the 1.1 series) has a glaringly obvious bug with that top-level
method_missing:

$ ruby -e ‘def method_missing(*) p :called end; “”.missing’
:called

I doubt 1.1.4 is any different. Newer versions don’t seem to have this
extconf.rb bug.

Why aren’t you using nokogiri?