Add libgmp-dev as an Ubuntu requirement
RVM installs a binary ruby, which is linked to libgmp, but doesn't install the libgmp-dev package. Ruby runs fine this way, but extensions will not compile.
rake-compiler-dock via @larskanis
lars@d14816859b44:/home/lars/comcard/nokogiri$ rvm install 2.2.3
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rubies.travis-ci.org/ubuntu/14.04/x86_64/ruby-2.2.3.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Requirements installation successful.
ruby-2.2.3 - #configure
ruby-2.2.3 - #download
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 22.9M 100 22.9M 0 0 864k 0 0:00:27 0:00:27 --:--:-- 1232k
No checksum for downloaded archive, recording checksum in user configuration.
ruby-2.2.3 - #validate archive
ruby-2.2.3 - #extract
ruby-2.2.3 - #validate binary
ruby-2.2.3 - #setup
ruby-2.2.3 - #gemset created /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3@global
ruby-2.2.3 - #importing gemset /usr/local/rvm/gemsets/global.gems...................................
ruby-2.2.3 - #generating global wrappers........
ruby-2.2.3 - #gemset created /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3
ruby-2.2.3 - #importing gemsetfile /usr/local/rvm/gemsets/default.gems evaluated to empty gem list
ruby-2.2.3 - #generating default wrappers........
lars@d14816859b44:/home/lars/comcard/nokogiri$
lars@d14816859b44:/home/lars/comcard/nokogiri$
lars@d14816859b44:/home/lars/comcard/nokogiri$ ldd /usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/libruby.so
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffd3c640000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc87bfde000)
libgmp.so.10 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.10 (0x00007fc87bd6a000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc87bb66000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007fc87b92d000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc87b627000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc87b262000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc87c6dc000)
As a result it is not possible to install gems like nokogiri or atomic (which is necessary for rails).
Installs of these gems fail with this error:
gem_make.out:
/home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20150905-15835-17vnavf.rb extconf.rb
checking if the C compiler accepts ... *** 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/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
--help
--clean
/home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:456:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
from /home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:571:in `block in try_compile'
from /home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:522:in `with_werror'
from /home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:571:in `try_compile'
from extconf.rb:80:in `nokogiri_try_compile'
from extconf.rb:87:in `block in add_cflags'
from /home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib/ruby/2.2.0/mkmf.rb:619:in `with_cflags'
from extconf.rb:86:in `add_cflags'
from extconf.rb:337:in `<main>'
extconf failed, exit code 1
mkmf.log:
"gcc -o conftest -I/home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/include/ruby-2.2.0/x86_64-linux -I/home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/include/ruby-2.2.0/ruby/backward -I/home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/include/ruby-2.2.0 -I. -O3 -fno-fast-math -ggdb3 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wunused-variable -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wdeprecated-declarations -Wno-packed-bitfield-compat -fPIC conftest.c -L. -L/home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib -Wl,-R/home/gerald/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/lib -L. -fstack-protector -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,-rpath,'/../lib' -Wl,-R'/../lib' -lruby -lpthread -lgmp -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc "
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgmp
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
checked program was:
/* begin */
1: #include "ruby.h"
2:
3: int main(int argc, char **argv)
4: {
5: return 0;
6: }
/* end */
System infomation
gerald@gerald-VirtualBox:~/code/rails-i18n$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
gerald@gerald-VirtualBox:~/code/rails-i18n$ ruby -v
ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x86_64-linux]