ffi: Installing ffi 1.9.21 with native extensions on Ruby 2.4.2, Ubuntu 17.10 failing.

Error looks like this.

  Installing dotenv 2.2.1
  Installing request_store 1.3.2
  Installing draper 3.0.1
  
  Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
  
      /opt/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20180207-2245-1bjhja4.rb extconf.rb
  checking for ffi.h... no
  checking for ffi.h in /usr/local/include,/usr/include/ffi... no
  checking for shlwapi.h... no
  checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... no
  checking for rb_thread_call_with_gvl()... yes
  checking for rb_thread_call_without_gvl()... yes
  creating extconf.h
  creating Makefile
  
  make "DESTDIR=" clean
  
  make "DESTDIR="
  Running autoreconf for libffi
  /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/gems/ffi-1.9.21/ext/ffi_c/libffi/autogen.sh: line 2: exec: autoreconf: not found
  make: *** ["/var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/gems/ffi-1.9.21/ext/ffi_c/libffi-x86_64-linux"/.libs/libffi_convenience.a] Error 127
  
  make failed, exit code 2
  
  Gem files will remain installed in /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/gems/ffi-1.9.21 for inspection.
  Results logged to /var/app/ondeck/vendor/bundle/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.2.0-static/ffi-1.9.21/gem_make.out
  An error occurred while installing ffi (1.9.21), and Bundler cannot continue.
  Make sure that `gem install ffi -v '1.9.21'` succeeds before bundling. (Executor::NonZeroExitStatus)

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments: 21 (3 by maintainers)

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Ensure libffi's configure is part of the platform 'ruby' gem This runs autogen.sh to build configure and some other files, if not yet present. Also downloads git submodule, in case it's missing. Use... — committed to larskanis/ffi by larskanis 6 years ago
Various fixes and more deterinistic gem packaging (#612) * Ensure libffi's configure is part of the platform 'ruby' gem This runs autogen.sh to build configure and some other files, if not yet pr... — committed to ffi/ffi by larskanis 6 years ago
Lock ffi at 1.9.18 This is a workaround as described in https://github.com/ffi/ffi/issues/608 — committed to SUSE/connect by fschueller 6 years ago
Add a build path to the environment variable so that "ffi 1.9.25 with native extensions" can be installed `libffi` said: ``` $ brew reinstall libffi ==> Reinstalling libffi ==> Downloading https://ho... — committed to machupicchubeta/dotfiles by machupicchubeta 6 years ago

Most upvoted comments

This is a known issue - see #607 . You can either downgrade to ffi-1.9.18 or install libffi before ffi gem like so:

sudo apt install libffi-dev
gem inst ffi

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larskanis on Feb 7, 2018

OK, just pushed ffi-1.9.22, which should solve this issue. Could you please re-try?

larskanis on Feb 23, 2018

This seems to be working by install libtool as well.

fragoulis on Feb 22, 2018

@jhsoare I had the same problems in my server AWS with ubuntu 14.04.5 and just run

sudo apt install libffi-dev

And in my gemfile group production add gem 'ffi', '1.9.18', it work for me

dev-darenas on Feb 8, 2018

FWIW my issue specifically was that this dependency specifically uses Xcode. And I had renamed my active CLI Xcode tool from Xcode to Xcode GM (to differentiate from the other Xcode installation I had). Renaming it back to Xcode made the installation succeed on my end. Hope this helps someone 👍

rogerluan on Nov 16, 2019

Encountered the error on Ubuntu 18.04. Solved it with sudo apt-get install -y libxml2-dev

kooljo on Apr 18, 2019

Hi I have specified in my gem file like below gem ‘ffi’, ‘1.9.18’ but still it’s trying to download latest one when I execute bundle install how to overcome this problem your help will be greatly appreciated. Installing ffi 1.9.21 with native extensions

manikandankumaraswamy on Feb 9, 2018