Howdy -
I’m having problems building native gems. When rubygem tries to make the native extension, I get an error saying string.h is not found.
I’ve compiled a basic C program with string.h to make sure all my default GCC include paths are right and it works fine. But I’ve tried to build 3 gems now (I’m after mysql - but I’ve also tried json and others) all of which fail during make saying string.h not found.
I’m running
BeagleBon Black with Angtsrom 2012.12
Ruby 1.9.3p194
rubygem 1.8.23
I’ve installed the libc and other required development packaged using opkg. As stated I can compile C programs using GCC okay and I have verified string.h is available and basic string io functionality works in compiled C program.s
Here’s the output from gem install mysql
Building native extensions. This could take a while…
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for mysql_ssl_set()… *** 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=/usr/bin/ruby
–with-mysql-config
–without-mysql-config
/usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:381:in try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError) You have to install development tools first. from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:461:in try_link0’
from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:476:in try_link' from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:619:in try_func’
from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:894:in block in have_func' from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:790:in block in checking_for’
from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:284:in block (2 levels) in postpone' from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:254:in open’
from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:284:in block in postpone' from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:254:in open’
from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:280:in postpone' from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:789:in checking_for’
from /usr/lib/ruby/mkmf.rb:893:in have_func' from extconf.rb:45:in ’
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/mysql-2.9.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/mysql-2.9.1/ext/mysql_api/gem_make.out
Here’s the mkmf.log file from the gem install mysql:
“arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-ab
i=softfp -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a8 --sysroot=/build/v2012.12/build/tmp-angstro
m_v2012_12-eglibc/sysroots/beaglebone -o conftest -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/arm-
linux-eabi -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/backward -I/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1 -I.
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/mysql -pipe -g -feliminate-unused-debu
g-types -DUNIV_LINUX -O2 -pipe -g -feliminate-unused-debug-types -fPIC conftes
t.c -L. -L/usr/lib -L. -Wl,-O1 -Wl,–hash-style=gnu -Wl,–as-needed -rdynamic -
Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,–hash-style=gnu -Wl,–as-needed -rdynamic -L/
usr/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lcrypt -lnsl -lm -lruby -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt
-lm -lc”
In file included from /usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby.h:32:0,
from conftest.c:1:
/usr/include/ruby-1.9.1/ruby/ruby.h:48:21: fatal error: string.h: No such file o
r directory
compilation terminated.
checked program was:
/* begin /
1: #include “ruby.h”
2:
3: int main() {return 0;}
/ end */
Any ideas why I might be getting this error? Mu assumption is that the compiler flags set by extconf.rb are somehow excluding the paths for dtring.h includes on the agnstrom distro? But I’m lost here - any pointers welcome.
Thanks,