No such file or directory

[EnziinSystem]

My environment:

• Ruby: 3.0.3
• Rails: 7.0.0
• Linux Alpine 3.15

Add tailwindcss to the app:

./bin/rails tailwindcss:install

The error message:

Add Tailwindcss include tags and container element in application layout
      insert  app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
      insert  app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
      insert  app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
Build into app/assets/builds
      create  app/assets/builds
      create  app/assets/builds/.keep
      append  app/assets/config/manifest.js
      append  .gitignore
Add default config/tailwindcss.config.js
      create  config/tailwind.config.js
Add default app/assets/stylesheets/application.tailwind.css
      create  app/assets/stylesheets/application.tailwind.css
Add default Procfile.dev
      create  Procfile.dev
Ensure foreman is installed
         run  gem install foreman from "."
Successfully installed foreman-0.87.2
1 gem installed
Add bin/dev to start foreman
      create  bin/dev
Compile initial Tailwind build
         run  rails tailwindcss:build from "."
+ /usr/local/bundle/gems/tailwindcss-rails-2.0.2-x86_64-linux/exe/x86_64-linux/tailwindcss -i /home/blog/app/assets/stylesheets/application.tailwind.css -o /home/blog/app/assets/builds/tailwind.css -c /home/blog/config/tailwind.config.js
/usr/local/bundle/gems/tailwindcss-rails-2.0.2-x86_64-linux/lib/tasks/../../exe/tailwindcss:40:in `exec': No such file or directory - /usr/local/bundle/gems/tailwindcss-rails-2.0.2-x86_64-linux/exe/x86_64-linux/tailwindcss (Errno::ENOENT)
	from /usr/local/bundle/gems/tailwindcss-rails-2.0.2-x86_64-linux/lib/tasks/../../exe/tailwindcss:40:in `<main>'

However, if I list the directory then it still exists.

$ ls /usr/local/bundle/gems/tailwindcss-rails-2.0.2-x86_64-linux/exe/x86_64-linux
tailwindcss

[alex-damian-negru]

I've got this same issue but in a dockerized container (alpine linux as well). Weirdly enough the file does exist in the container but the error mentions it doesn't. 😕

[alex-damian-negru]

After digging a bit more, I may have found the issue.

Running ldd yielded the following:

bash-5.1# ldd tailwindcss 
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f0a74fb8000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f0a74fb8000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x7f0a74e17000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f0a74fb8000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x7f0a74dfd000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f0a74fb8000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x7f0a74fb8000)
Error loading shared library ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: No such file or directory (needed by tailwindcss)

Alpine linux seems to be missing some interpreter. Basically that's the missing file, not the tailwindcss one.

This led me to gliderlabs/docker-alpine#219 and then to https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs. I then added gcompat to my dockerfile and tailwind could then run successfully.

---

Tl;Dr Try installing gcompat in your alpine environment.

[EnziinSystem]

I install the gcompat package:

apk add gcompat

And

/home/blog # ldd tailwindcss
/lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1: cannot load tailwindcss: No such file or directory

However the file "/lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1" still exists.

/home/blog # ls /lib
apk                     libc.musl-x86_64.so.1   libfdisk.so.1.1.0       libpam_misc.so.0        librt.so.1              libuuid.so.1            pkgconfig
firmware                libc.so.6               libgcompat.so.0         libpam_misc.so.0.82.1   libsmartcols.so.1       libuuid.so.1.3.0        rc
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2    libcom_err.so.2         libm.so.6               libpamc.so.0            libsmartcols.so.1.1.0   libz.so                 security
ld-musl-x86_64.so.1     libcom_err.so.2.1       libmount.so.1           libpamc.so.0.82.1       libssl.so.1.1           libz.so.1               sysctl.d
libapk.so.3.12.0        libcrypt.so.1           libmount.so.1.1.0       libprocps.so.8          libucontext.so.1        libz.so.1.2.11
libblkid.so.1           libcrypto.so.1.1        libpam.so.0             libprocps.so.8.0.3      libucontext_posix.so.1  mdev
libblkid.so.1.1.0       libfdisk.so.1           libpam.so.0.85.1        libpthread.so.0         libutil.so.1            modules-load.d

[flavorjones]

Unfortunately there's not much we can do within this gem to address how the upstream binaries are being built; we are simply repackaging the executables from https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss

See related discussion upstream at:

• TailwindCSS Standalone CLI not working in Alpine Linux (docker) tailwindlabs/tailwindcss#6690
• Switch to using linuxstatic for CLI builds tailwindlabs/tailwindcss#6785

@dhh I think we should close this. I'll submit a PR to the README to clarify the workaround of gcompat.

[flavorjones]

@EnziinSystem try also installing build-base:

apk add build-base gcompat 

[flavorjones]

See #123