ruby - Wurlpool gem のインストールに失敗しますか?

Question

でインストールしようとしdigest-whirlpoolてgemいますが、エラーが発生します:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing digest-whirlpool:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1 extconf.rb
/usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- mkmf (LoadError)
    from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
    from extconf.rb:1:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/digest-whirlpool-1.0.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/digest-whirlpool-1.0.2/ext/digest/whirlpool/gem_make.out

これはなぜでしょうか？

編集: Debian テスト、ルビー 1:1.9.3