Need help compiling/installing gem on Ubuntu

I have a Rails application where I make use of the gem "fast_trie". This has a dependency on libdatrie. The gem installs fine on my dev machine (osx), but it fails when I try to deploy to our production servers (Running Ubuntu). I believe the problem is that the ruby gem depends on an older version of libdatrie. I need help to figure out how to get it built on my server. Some information to go on: root@stage:/tmp# uname -a Linux ip-172-31-27-124 3.11.0-4-generic #9-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 26 15:21:06 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux root@stage:/tmp# lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 Codename: saucy root@stage:/tmp# ruby -v ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux] root@stage:/tmp# gem install fast_trie -v '0.5.0' Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing fast_trie: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 -r ./[login to view URL] [login to view URL] creating Makefile make clean make compiling tail.c tail.c: In function ‘tail_read’: tail.c:111:9: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘file_read_int32’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default] file_read_int32 (file, &t->tails[i].data); ^ In file included from tail.c:13:0: fileutils.h:20:8: note: expected ‘int32 *’ but argument is of type ‘TrieData *’ Bool file_read_int32 (FILE *file, int32 *o_val); ^ compiling darray.c compiling trie.c trie.c: In function ‘raise_ioerror’: trie.c:24:5: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security] rb_raise(rb_eIOError, message); ^ trie.c: In function ‘rb_trie_has_key’: trie.c:84:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘trie_has_key’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] if(trie_has_key(trie, (TrieChar*)RSTRING_PTR(key))) ^ trie.c: In function ‘walk_all_paths’: trie.c:180:1: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type] } ^ trie.c: In function ‘walk_all_paths_with_values’: trie.c:258:1: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type] } ^ In file included from trie.c:2:0: trie.c: At top level: trie.h:25:13: warning: ‘trie_branch_in_branch’ declared ‘static’ but never defined [-Wunused-function] static Bool trie_branch_in_branch (Trie *trie, TrieIndex sep_node, const TrieChar *suffix, TrieData data); ^ trie.h:26:13: warning: ‘trie_branch_in_tail’ declared ‘static’ but never defined [-Wunused-function] static Bool trie_branch_in_tail(Trie *trie, TrieIndex sep_node, const TrieChar *suffix, TrieData data); ^ trie.h:31:20: warning: ‘trie_state_new’ declared ‘static’ but never defined [-Wunused-function] static TrieState * trie_state_new (const Trie *trie, TrieIndex index, short suffix_idx, short is_suffix); ^ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make: *** [trie.o] Error 1 make failed, exit code 2 Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fast_trie-0.5.0 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/extensions/x86_64-linux/1.9.1/fast_trie-0.5.0/[login to view URL] Note that this is a slightly dated version of Ubuntu (13.10)