gitlab-recipes/install/freebsd

FreeBsd 8 / 9 Install Troubleshooting

Naughty Gems

• charlock_holmes

• rugged

Charlock Holmes-Gem install fails or breaks after pkg upgrade

Every now and then devel/icu - or other dependencies of charlock_holmes - will get updated, sometimes invalidating the gem installation in the gitlab directory.

N.B. Your running server will continue normal operation in that case, but updates and/or rake commands in general may suddenly fail.

Cure (Kudos to herrBeesch)

On FreeBSD we need to tell the gem install routine where to look for certain dependencies:

sudo gem install charlock_holmes -- --with-icu-dir=/usr/lib --with-opt-include=/usr/local/include/

This process should now succeed, provided that it does, let's store those values in the build configuration for gitlab:

sudo -u git -H bundle config build.charlock_holmes --with-opt-include=/usr/local/include/ --with-opt-lib=/usr/local/lib/

Now you should be able to pickup where you were when you bumped into this :)

Rugged-Gem install fails w/o gmake

checking for gmake... no
checking for make... yes
 -- /usr/bin/make -f Makefile.embed
*** 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.

Remedy:

Make gmake available sudo pkg install gmake (or whatever freebsd install routine you prefer) and retry.