Can't install Rdiscount on Windows machine with international characters in computer name

[maximkoo]

Hi,

I can't install rdiscount versions 2.07 ... 2.1.8 on my Windows 7 64. I need it for installing Octopress, but I always get the following error

---

c:\Users\Maxim\Documents\maximkoo.github.com>gem install rdiscount -v '2.1.8'
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rdiscount:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb

checking for random()... no
checking for srandom()... no
checking for rand()... yes
checking for srand()... yes
checking size of unsigned long... 4
checking size of unsigned int... *** 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=C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/bin/ruby
--with-rdiscount-dir
--without-rdiscount-dir
--with-rdiscount-include
--without-rdiscount-include=${rdiscount-dir}/include
--with-rdiscount-lib
--without-rdiscount-lib=${rdiscount-dir}/lib
C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:408:in popen': Invalid argum ent - ruby_setenv(LOGONSERVER) (Errno::EINVAL) from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:408:inblock in
xpopen'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:321:in open' from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:401:inxpopen'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:704:in try_cons tant' from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:1309:inblock i
n check_sizeof'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:918:in block in checking_for' from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:351:inblock (2
levels) in postpone'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:321:in open' from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:351:inblock in
postpone'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:321:in open' from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:347:inpostpone
'
from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:917:in checking _for' from C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:1308:incheck_s
izeof'
from extconf.rb:11:in block in sized_int' from extconf.rb:11:ineach'
from extconf.rb:11:in find' from extconf.rb:11:insized_int'
from extconf.rb:16:in `

'

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1
.0/gems/rdiscount-2.1.8 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/extensions/x86
-mingw32/2.1.0/rdiscount-2.1.8/gem_make.out

Please help.

[davidfstr]

Life has gotten extremely busy for me recently, so it will probably take me another week or two to get around to looking at this. -- My best suggestion would be to try installing RDiscount in a clean Windows 7 VM to see if there are any environmental issues with your main dev machine.

[maximkoo]

Hi, David!

It looks like I've found the solution myself. My home computer has name 'Maxim-ПК', including two cyrillic symbols, that probably caused an error in LOGONSERVER environment variable. I changed the name for 'Maxim-PC', and RDiscount has been installed perfectly.

Hope my solution will be useful to others.

Всем спасибо за внимание.

[davidfstr]

How bizarre. I wouldn't expect the RDiscount or the MinGW toolchain to care about the LOGONSERVER variable. Just goes to show that most software just doesn't do Unicode correctly...

[davidfstr]

Hmm. I can't seem to rename my Windows computer to the name that you provided. It always pastes underscores for international characters.

Since you've already found a workaround, I'll close this.