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wiznaibus
wiznaibus

Reputation: 671

Nokogiri does not install?

I can't seem to get Nokogiri installed on my Mac OS X 10.8 system. I know there is a workaround to this solution and the work around is:

NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 bundle install

But I would rather solve it because every time I do a bundle, it fails. Here is the problem:

$ gem install nokogiri

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing nokogiri:
  ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /Users/buf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby extconf.rb
Extracting libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz into tmp/x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0/ports/libxml2/2.8.0... OK
Running 'configure' for libxml2 2.8.0... ERROR, review 'tmp/x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0/ports/libxml2/2.8.0/configure.log' to see what happened.
*** 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=/Users/buf/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p195/bin/ruby
/Users/buf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195@rentify193/gems/mini_portile-0.5.1/lib/mini_portile.rb:251:in `block in execute': Failed to complete configure task (RuntimeError)
  from /Users/buf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195@rentify193/gems/mini_portile-0.5.1/lib/mini_portile.rb:243:in `chdir'
  from /Users/buf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195@rentify193/gems/mini_portile-0.5.1/lib/mini_portile.rb:243:in `execute'
  from /Users/buf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195@rentify193/gems/mini_portile-0.5.1/lib/mini_portile.rb:57:in `configure'
  from /Users/buf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195@rentify193/gems/mini_portile-0.5.1/lib/mini_portile.rb:100:in `cook'
  from extconf.rb:101:in `block in <main>'
  from extconf.rb:119:in `call'
  from extconf.rb:119:in `block in <main>'
  from extconf.rb:109:in `tap'
  from extconf.rb:109:in `<main>'


Gem files will remain installed in /Users/buf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195@rentify193/gems/nokogiri-1.6.0 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/buf/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p195@rentify193/gems/nokogiri-1.6.0/ext/nokogiri/gem_make.out

And when I look at the log file:

configure: error: cannot find sources (entities.c) in /Volumes/Terra/Code/vimsource/vim/src or ..

Anyone know what's going on?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1223

Answers (2)

Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 2704

In Mavericks, using Homebrew to install the libraries the gem depends on first and then setting NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 before actually installing the gem did the trick for me.

Summarising:

  • If previously installed, uninstall the gem:
    $ gem uninstall nokogiri

  • Use Homebrew to install libxml2, libxslt and libiconv:
    $ brew install libxml2 libxslt libiconv

  • Install the gem specifying the paths to the libraries to be linked against:
    $ NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=1 gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries --with-iconv-dir="$(brew --prefix libiconv)" --with-xml2-config="$(brew --prefix libxml2)/bin/xml2-config" --with-xslt-config="$(brew --prefix libxslt)/bin/xslt-config"

After the gem is installed bundle installshould finish without errors.

Upvotes: 5

chirag7jain
chirag7jain

Reputation: 1547

The problem is that libxml2-2.8.0 is not getting installed properly. First try installing it and then install Nokogiri.

Upvotes: 0

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