Discovering why Berkshelf is busted

[johnmccrae]

Description

Trying to find out why the Berkshelf gem is not working.

Issues Resolved

Check List

• New functionality includes tests
• All tests pass
• RELEASE_NOTES.md has been updated if required (not required for bugfixes, required for API changes)

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[adriantaut]

hello @johnmccrae what do you mean by berkshelf is busted?

Suddently getting this error without changing much in my automation, any thoughts?

[root@ip-10-174-6-204 ~]# chef-client --version
Chef Infra Client: 18.0.185

[root@ip-10-174-6-204 ~]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/ruby -v
ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x86_64-linux]

[root@ip-10-174-6-204 ~]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem -v
3.3.7

[root@ip-10-174-6-204 ~]# /opt/chef/embedded/bin/gem install berkshelf
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing berkshelf:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/ffi-1.16.2/ext/ffi_c
/opt/chef/embedded/bin/ruby -I /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0 -r ./siteconf20230926-1695-u46cd0.rb extconf.rb
checking for ffi.h... *** 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
	--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=/opt/chef/embedded/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
	--with-ffi_c-dir
	--without-ffi_c-dir
	--with-ffi_c-include
	--without-ffi_c-include=${ffi_c-dir}/include
	--with-ffi_c-lib
	--without-ffi_c-lib=${ffi_c-dir}/lib
	--enable-debug
	--disable-debug
	--enable-system-libffi
	--disable-system-libffi
	--with-libffi-dir
	--without-libffi-dir
	--with-libffi-include
	--without-libffi-include=${libffi-dir}/include
	--with-libffi-lib
	--without-libffi-lib=${libffi-dir}/lib
	--with-libffi-config
	--without-libffi-config
	--with-pkg-config
	--without-pkg-config
	--with-ffi-dir
	--without-ffi-dir
	--with-ffi-include
	--without-ffi-include=${ffi-dir}/include
	--with-ffi-lib
	--without-ffi-lib=${ffi-dir}/lib
/opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:509:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:635:in `block in try_compile'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:584:in `with_werror'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:635:in `try_compile'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:1171:in `block in have_header'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:1018:in `block in checking_for'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:362:in `block (2 levels) in postpone'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:332:in `open'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:362:in `block in postpone'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:332:in `open'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:358:in `postpone'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:1017:in `checking_for'
	from /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/3.1.0/mkmf.rb:1170:in `have_header'
	from extconf.rb:10:in `system_libffi_usable?'
	from extconf.rb:46:in `<main>'

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here:

  /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/3.1.0/ffi-1.16.2/mkmf.log

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/ffi-1.16.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /opt/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/3.1.0/ffi-1.16.2/gem_make.out

thank you!

PS: also opened #22

[tpowell-progress]

@adriantaut ffi gem advanced a minor and a few patch versions from the 1.15.5 that was working before. However, it was happening for others as early as ffi-1.13.1 (ffi/ffi#836)

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