TMail Ruby 1.9.2 installation error

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Installing tmail (1.2.3.1) with native extensions /Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:551:in `rescue in block in build_extensions': ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. (Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError)

        /Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/ruby extconf.rb 
creating Makefile

make
gcc-4.2 -I. -I/Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/include/ruby-1.9.1/x86_64-darwin11.1.0 -I/Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I. -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE   -fno-common -O3 -ggdb -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wshorten-64-to-32 -Wno-long-long  -fno-common -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -o tmailscanner.o -c tmailscanner.c
tmailscanner.c:19:16: error: re.h: No such file or directory
tmailscanner.c: In function 'mails_s_new':
tmailscanner.c:75: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'ptr'
tmailscanner.c:77: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'len'
tmailscanner.c:87: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tmailscanner.c: In function 'digit_p':
tmailscanner.c:379: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'ptr'
tmailscanner.c:380: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'len'
tmailscanner.c:381: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'ptr'
tmailscanner.c:381: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'ptr'
tmailscanner.c: In function 'atomsym':
tmailscanner.c:399: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'ptr'
tmailscanner.c: In function 'debug_print':
tmailscanner.c:420: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'ptr'
tmailscanner.c:421: error: 'struct RString' has no member named 'ptr'
make: *** [tmailscanner.o] Error 1


Gem files will remain installed in /Users/elfxf/code/contribution/github-services/vendor/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/tmail-1.2.3.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/elfxf/code/contribution/github-services/vendor/gems/ruby/1.9.1/gems/tmail-1.2.3.1/ext/tmailscanner/tmail/gem_make.out
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:529:in `block in build_extensions'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:504:in `each'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:504:in `build_extensions'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:180:in `install'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/source.rb:101:in `block in install'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/rubygems_integration.rb:78:in `preserve_paths'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/source.rb:91:in `install'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/installer.rb:58:in `block (2 levels) in run'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/rubygems_integration.rb:93:in `with_build_args'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/installer.rb:57:in `block in run'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/installer.rb:49:in `run'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/installer.rb:8:in `install'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/cli.rb:220:in `install'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/task.rb:22:in `run'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/invocation.rb:118:in `invoke_task'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/vendor/thor.rb:263:in `dispatch'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/lib/bundler/vendor/thor/base.rb:386:in `start'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/gems/bundler-1.0.18/bin/bundle:13:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/bin/bundle:19:in `load'
	from /Users/elfxf/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290@global/bin/bundle:19:in `<main>'
 

I inherited an app using this version of the tmail gem. Do you by the 1 in a million chance still remember 3 years later anything about a fix for this issue?

I too have inherited an application with this problem. Any idea what it was, four years later from the last comment ,and way longer since the original?