ruby-build: 2.5.1 fails on FreeBSD 12.0 when using gcc

On a fresh installation of FreeBSD 12.0, ruby-build fails with the following error:

$ rbenv install 2.5.1
Downloading ruby-2.5.1.tar.bz2...
-> https://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.5/ruby-2.5.1.tar.bz2
Installing ruby-2.5.1...

BUILD FAILED (FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE using ruby-build 20180822)

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/ruby-build.20181227204543.15196
Results logged to /tmp/ruby-build.20181227204543.15196.log

Last 10 log lines:
>>> probes.o:(.eh_frame): SHT_X86_64_UNWIND
>>> output section .eh_frame: SHT_PROGBITS
*** [ruby-glommed.o] Error code 1

make: stopped in /tmp/ruby-build.20181227204543.15196/ruby-2.5.1
--- transdb.h ---
transdb.h updated
1 error

make: stopped in /tmp/ruby-build.20181227204543.15196/ruby-2.5.1

The full build log is:

ruby-build.20181227204543.15196.log

A workaround that works for me is to force clang use with CC=clang rbenv install 2.5.1.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 17 (2 by maintainers)

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The problem seems to be with DTrace support, specifically by the following lines in the Makefile, generated with a default ./configure (FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p2):

# DTrace static library hacks described here:
# http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2005-August/000207.html
ruby-glommed.$(OBJEXT):
  @$(ECHO) generating a glommed object with DTrace probes for static library
  $(Q) $(LD) -r -o $@ $(OBJS)

The link is dead, and lost to time (couldn’t find it at archive.org either).

If you’re ok with ruby without DTrace support, you can build it with:

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--disable-dtrace" rbenv install 2.6.0

I’ve only tested this on FreeBSD 12, installing ruby 2.6.0

bigbluejay9 on Jan 20, 2019