[SOLVED] bundle from ruby package can not install gems

Question

Hello, I was stuck with 'bundle' for hours, I do not know anything about Ruby, and even looking at the code won't get my anywhere. kindda don't like it... (guilty). Anyway, I'm gonna post it here to save someone else's time.
What I was trying to do:
  I was trying to run this command, as developing an omega sub-theme for Drupal requires this. This command will read GemFile and install all GEM dependencies.
bundle install
What happened? What's the problem?
  this happened:
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/............
Fetching additional metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
Resolving dependencies...
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby extconf.rb
*** 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=/home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby
--with-ffi_c-dir
--without-ffi_c-dir
--with-ffi_c-include
--without-ffi_c-include=${ffi_c-dir}/include
--with-ffi_c-lib
--without-ffi_c-lib=${ffi_c-dir}/lib
--with-libffi-config
--without-libffi-config
--with-pkg-config
--without-pkg-config
/home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:456:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
from /home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:541:in `try_link0'
from /home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:556:in `try_link'
from /home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:642:in `block in try_ldflags'
from /home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:635:in `with_ldflags'
from /home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:641:in `try_ldflags'
from /home/MY_USER/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/lib/ruby/2.1.0/mkmf.rb:1762:in `pkg_config'
from extconf.rb:15:in `<main>'
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /home/MY_USER/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/gems/ffi-1.9.3 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/MY_USER/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.1.0/ffi-1.9.3/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing ffi (1.9.3), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install ffi -v '1.9.3'` succeeds before bundling.
What was tried?
  Everything: cloning eventmachine directly from github which produced same result, removing gems depending on eventmachine however other packages produced the same result, ...
  The error message says: You have to install development tools first. however it was installed:
sudo pacman --needed -S base-devel
What was the problem? What's the solution then?
  Well, I had previously enabled multilib in pacman.com which resulted in gcc-multilib and gcc-libs-multilib being installed however these multilib packages does NOT work, gcc and gcc-libs needs to be installed instead. I do not know what is the proper solution for having these multilib packages and compiling ruby gems? (maybe adding multilib back to pacman.conf!) but it finally worked for me.
I would create a wiki article but I don't know if it deserve's one + I'm not very good english writer + not sure if the solution is 100% right. probably this should be added to ruby page: in order to compile ruby gems you have to install gcc and gcc-libs instead of gcc-multilib and gcc-libs-multilib since multilib packages wont work because of...?
Last edited by loolooyyyy (2014-06-19 17:33:08)

Answer 1

Don't have the 7100 board , but some of theese issues are common .
Enter BIOS in the following submenus :
Advanced BIOS Features:
-HD-Boot order - Make sure your SATA drive where you install OS is first in the list .
(always check this one when altering HD's and connections of drives/usb-drives/card readers etc)
Set normal boot order
1'st boot device : CDROM
2'nd boot device :Harddisk
3'rd boot device : Harddisk (just to have something there)
or if having floppy
1'st boot device : Floppy
2'nd boot device : CDROM
3'rd boot device : Harddisk
Boot other device : disabled
Disconnect all USB cables coming from case or multicard dreader device etc. terminated on the motherboards JUSB1/JUSB2 .. headers .
Enter Advanced Chipset features
Integrated pheripherals
Ide function setup ->
Onchip IDE channel 0 : Disabled
Onchip IDE channel 1 : Disabled
SATA 1/2 : Enabled
SATA 3/4 : Enabled
Onboard device->
OnBoard Sil3132 RAID : disabled
OnBoard Sil3132 Mode :SATA
Also recommend setting
USB KB/Storage Support : Disabled
(and connect the keyboard to PS2 via the delivered USB/PS2 adapter )
Boot once , and enter bios again to verify the HDbootorder
BTW: Having only 2.5GB for is not gonna cut it as OS partition is not enough as pagefile written under install is 1.5 times installed memory
and the install will halt .
Windows updates and other stuff as mail storage , my documents , user prifiles and registry hives need space and grow some over time .
Primary OS partition workes best having altleast a minimum 20% free space all the time for housekeeping tasks lige changing layout ini , prefetch data
defragmenting etc.
Don't use anything less than 15GB to have peace of mind . ( I usually make it 30GB or more to avoid having lack of space later on , as that is a bitch )