Install 2.1.0 & 2.1.2 Fail OSX 10.9.4

[lacostenycoder]

Earlier I was having problems with Hombrew install so deleted everything and did clean clone of latest RBENV 1.0.0 master. Now I can't install any Rubies.

$ rbenv install 2.1.0
Downloading ruby-2.1.0.tar.gz...
-> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.1/ruby-2.1.0.tar.gz
Installing ruby-2.1.0...

BUILD FAILED (OS X 10.9.4 using ruby-build 20151226)

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/vb/tcv8xmg961g9g363lj5zkr500000gp/T/ruby-build.20151228140520.13131
Results logged to /var/folders/vb/tcv8xmg961g9g363lj5zkr500000gp/T/ruby-build.20151228140520.13131.log

Last 10 log lines:
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checking whether it is safe to define __EXTENSIONS__... yes
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checking whether CFLAGS is valid... yes
checking whether LDFLAGS is valid... no
configure: error: something wrong with LDFLAGS="-L/Users/lancejordan/.rbenv/versions/2.1.0/lib "
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

log errors from 2.1.2 (which I tried to install first with similar error above)

/var/folders/vb/tcv8xmg961g9g363lj5zkr500000gp/T/ruby-build.20151228135441.7232 ~
/var/folders/vb/tcv8xmg961g9g363lj5zkr500000gp/T/ruby-build.20151228135441.7232/ruby-2.1.2 /var/folders/vb/tcv8xmg961g9g363lj5zkr500000gp/T/ruby-build.20151228135441.7232 ~
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      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
            ^
Error: ENOENT, open '-e'
    at Error (native)
no
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.ext/include/x86_64-darwin13.0/ruby/config.h updated
ruby library version = 2.1.0
configure: creating ./config.status
sed: 1: "s/.*%!_!# !%!_!#  _%!_! ...": unterminated substitute pattern
configure: error: could not make ./config.status
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

[hsbt]

2.1.2 is old version. Can you try with Ruby 2.1.8?

[lacostenycoder]

@hsbt Thanks, yes I did. All main ruby versions fail. But I was able to install jruby-9.0.0.0

[mislav]

@lacostenycoder I can see how the LDFLAGS error happened for Ruby 2.1.0 (fixed in 3fe1eaf), but I can't see how the identical error can happen for other Ruby versions. Can you try to install a recent Ruby version such as 2.2.4 and 2.3.0 and paste us the full build log as a Gist? Thanks

[lacostenycoder]

@mislav https://gist.github.com/lacostenycoder/a55ef0c5d7f45b03af6f

[mislav]

Seems like the error isn't related to LDFLAGS:

configure: creating ./config.status
configure: error: could not make ./config.status

But I don't know what's causing it. If you say that every Ruby version fails for you, perhaps this is something specific to your system. Can you check whether you installed any newer versions of system utilities such as sed, perhaps using Homebrew? You can list all installed packages using brew list. Maybe something that you installed is tripping up the Ruby configure process?

[lacostenycoder]

@mislav agreed. I did however install gnu-sed under recommendation as I had been getting sed errors prior to that, found in first post in this thread. So here's what I've got. Most recently I reinstalled node and npm outside of homebrew and deleted my prior brew node install. I also installed mono for testing .NET dev on OSX. Finally, my problems seemed to have started after brew updating which updated my rbenv install. That's when I tried brew deleting it and just installing from the git repo. Since then it's been down the rabbit whole. Here's what I got:

$ brew list
ansible         faad2           htop-osx        libxslt         pkg-config
autoconf        figlet          hub         libyaml         postgresql
automake        flac            icu4c           mad         python
awscli          fontconfig      imagemagick     makedepend      qt
bdw-gc          freetype        jpeg            memcached       readline
boot2docker     fribidi         lame            mongodb         redis
brew-cask       gdbm            libao           mono            sphinx
cairo           gettext         libass-ct       mp4v2           sphinx-doc
class-dump      git         libcue          mplayer         sqlite
cmus            glib            libevent        mysql           ssh-copy-id
coreutils       gmp         libffi          nginx           swi-prolog
cpulimit        gnu-sed         libogg          openssl         vim
docker          gobject-introspection   libpng          ossp-uuid       w3m
elasticsearch       graphviz        libtool         pcre            xz
exiftool        harfbuzz        libvorbis       phantomjs       yasm
eye-d3          heroku-toolbelt     libxml2         pixman

[mislav]

Updating rbenv has likely nothing to do with your problem, since rbenv doesn't handle installing Ruby versions. The ruby-build plugin does, but it seems you have an up-to-date version of that.

There's nothing in your brews that stands out to me as a potential culprit. Maybe you could try downloading Ruby source and running ./configure manually, and inspecting the source to try to determine what exactly causes the error. I'm sure the Ruby core team would appreciate if you managed to track this build problem down, especially since for now you seem the only person with this problem.

Update: seems like @Cha2d had the same error rbenv/rbenv#658

[lacostenycoder]

@mislav so I just tried running ./configure from source of ruby 2.1.8 and it seems to fails at same line. Not sure what I should be inspecting for.

$ ./configure 
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.3.0
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ruby library version = 2.1.0
configure: creating ./config.status
configure: error: could not make ./config.status

[lacostenycoder]

this is the end of the config.log

vendorlibdir='${vendordir}/${ruby_version}'
warnflags='-Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-parentheses -Wno-long-long -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wunused-variable -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wshorten-64-to-32 -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wdivision-by-zero -Wextra-tokens'

configure: exit 1

[lacostenycoder]

After a day of tail chasing, the problem seems to have been simply path load order issues and/or homebrew conflicts. Finally working after deleting rbenv, killing cleaning path, and brew install rbenv.

[mislav]

That's pretty bizarre, since I can't see how PATH had something to do with this, but I'm glad you solved it! Thanks for updating.

[abhayghatpande]

Hello, I'm not sure if I should open a new issue for this. But I'm facing the exact same error with OS X 10.12 and ruby 2.3.1. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling both rbenv and ruby-build, to no avail.

Configure seems to be changing directory somehow ... and hence is not able to find the Makefile.

Any advice? Thanks.

$ rbenv --version
rbenv 1.0.0
$ rbenv install --version
ruby-build 20160602
$ xcode-select -print-path
/Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer
$ rbenv install 2.3.1
:
:
Last 10 log lines:
checking pthread.h usability... yes
checking pthread.h presence... yes
checking for pthread.h... yes
checking if make is GNU make... yes
checking for nroff... /usr/bin/nroff
.ext/include/x86_64-darwin16/ruby/config.h updated
configure: ruby library version = 2.3.1
configure: creating ./config.status
configure: error: could not make ./config.status
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

[ghost]

I had a somewhat similar problem but unrelated to homebrew. I do use ruby for compiling stuff from source, though, e. g. with my own projects of compiling and installing programs from source (on my linux box; it's a bit similar to homebrew but not as advanced as homebrew is)

For a weird reason, shell redirection happened for GNU autoconfigure based projects on my system. Which caused problems all of a sudden: I could not compile any program anymore. I could compile cmake programs and my own .c files just fine though. There were various errors, some bugs; e. g. "cc compiler can not compile executables" or something like that, which I knew was bogus since I could compile my own .c files just fine.

I had exactly the same problems mentioned above too, such as "configure: error: could not make ./config.status". Creating that file via "touch config.status" worked just fine, so obviously the error must have been wrong.

Checking through various config.log files, I saw wrong file descriptors being used. The message usually included "bad file descriptor", e. g. >&5 or something strange like that. I have no idea why such file descriptors are used.

At any rate, I then read that $PATH may be causing an issue - and indeed, when I changed the $PATH, suddenly I could compile again!

In my case, $PATH prioritizes on /System/Index/bin/ which is the $PATH used on GoboLinux by default. I have no idea why this can fail (it worked for many years for me); I assume I may have changed something... it is difficult to debug that giant mess that is bash + autogenerated shell scripts. But at any rate, putting /usr/bin/ as path there worked and I could compile again.

I do not know if this has anything to do with the problems here but I got exactly the same lines of problems and even more. So as odd as it may sound, $PATH can really be an issue. I may be further investigating but right now I am just glad that I can compile again without having to re-install. The whole GNU autoconfigure toolchain is so brittle, that is actually the first time that I think that cmake beats that old chain.

[lacostenycoder]

@shevegen Yep. PATH load order is often the culprit with build problems.
I found this helpful when my path is full of stuffs and I wanna see load order.
echo "${PATH//:/\n}"
because who can make sense of all the colon separated values?