Unable to 'gem install couchbase' on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Dynamicscope · January 28, 2015, 7:11am

I got the following error when ‘gem install couchbase’:

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

/Users/root/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for lcb_iops_wire_bsd_impl2(NULL, 0) in -lcouchbase… no

You must install libcouchbase >= 2.4.0

See http://www.couchbase.com/communities/c/ for more details

*** 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
–without-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/root/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.2/bin/ruby
–with-libcouchbase-dir
–without-libcouchbase-dir
–with-libcouchbase-include
–without-libcouchbase-include=${libcouchbase-dir}/include
–with-libcouchbase-lib
–without-libcouchbase-lib=${libcouchbase-dir}/lib
–with-couchbaselib
–without-couchbaselib

extconf failed, exit code 1

But I already have installed libcouchbase on my machine using ‘brew.’

$brew install libcouchbase
Warning: libcouchbase-2.4.3 already installed

So I try manually building libcouchbase.

$ git clone git://github.com/couchbase/libcouchbase.git
$ cd libcouchbase && mkdir build && cd build
$ …/cmake/configure
$ make
$ ctest

Actually, I needed this cause I need to use libcouchbase >= 2.4.4 because of Loading.... But it seems like brew only install 2.4.3.

ctest passed, but I still can’t ‘gem install couchbase’.
It seems like I need to use one of the configuration options.

Could anyone help me with example script?

P.S. It would be great if…

Brew is updated.
If guide links on github are updated. (The links are mis-directing to wrong pages.) Such as ‘installation page’ link from GitHub - couchbase/libcouchbase: The couchbase client for C..
A little more detail about how to install couchbase client library.

avsej · January 28, 2015, 7:50am

Homebrew has the most recent libcouchbase already

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/libcouchbase.rb#L5

Have you done brew update && brew upgrade libcouchbase

avsej · January 28, 2015, 7:53am

installation page leads to https://docs.couchbase.com/developer/c-2.4/download-install.html what wrong with it?

avsej · January 28, 2015, 7:59am

Did you run make install?

Dynamicscope · January 28, 2015, 8:38am

Oops, I was very ignorant. Sorry.
I tried…

brew uninstall libcouchbase
brew install libcouchbase

and thought everything would work fine.

And “installation page” looks fine, as well. I don’t know what I was looking at it.
And I didn’t know about “make install”, thank you.

Thank you for detailed explanation and everything else.

Dynamicscope · January 28, 2015, 8:41am

Hmmm…
Since everything works fine now, so this is not that critical but wondering why…

You must install libcouchbase >= 2.4.0

this error pops up while I have…

libcouchbase 2.4.3

gp99 · January 29, 2015, 4:54pm

I’m experiencing the same issue on Yosemite. I have tried everything listed here with no luck.

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

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for lcb_iops_wire_bsd_impl2(NULL, 0) in -lcouchbase... no

**********************************************************************
* You must install libcouchbase >= 2.4.0
* See http://www.couchbase.com/communities/c/ for more details
**********************************************************************

*** 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
--without-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=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby
--with-libcouchbase-dir
--without-libcouchbase-dir
--with-libcouchbase-include
--without-libcouchbase-include=${libcouchbase-dir}/include
--with-libcouchbase-lib
--without-libcouchbase-lib=${libcouchbase-dir}/
--with-couchbaselib
--without-couchbaselib

Dynamicscope · January 30, 2015, 10:13am

Have you also tried the following?

brew update
brew upgrade libcouchbase

I got this to work with it.

avsej · January 30, 2015, 3:00pm

@gp99, could you post output of brew info libcouchbase?

gp99 · January 30, 2015, 3:16pm

⇒ brew info libcouchbase
libcouchbase: stable 2.4.6 (bottled), HEAD
http://docs.couchbase.com/developer/c-2.4/c-intro.html
/usr/local/Cellar/libcouchbase/2.1.3 (131 files, 1.5M) *
  Built from source
/usr/local/Cellar/libcouchbase/2.4.6 (56 files, 1.5M)
  Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/libcouchbase.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: cmake ✔
Required: openssl ✔
Recommended: libevent ✔
Optional: libev ✘, libuv ✘
==> Options
--universal
	Build a universal binary
--with-libev
	Build libev plugin
--with-libuv
	Build with libuv support
--without-libevent
	Do not build libevent plugin
--HEAD
	Install HEAD version

Tried upgrade too

⇒ brew upgrade libcouchbase
Error: libcouchbase 2.4.6 already installed

avsej · February 20, 2015, 7:22am

I’ve tried yesterday, everything works on 10.10

gp99 · February 20, 2015, 7:36pm

I finally figured out that it was an issue with 64bit. Couchbaselib was x64, but I think the gem was trying to install as i386. I found something online about this happening with other gems, and updating ruby was the fix. I use rbenv, and switched back the the system ruby version and the gem installed fine.

avsej · February 23, 2015, 4:06pm

The gem is trying to workaround 64/32 bit issue on macs: https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-ruby-client/blob/master/ext/couchbase_ext/extconf.rb#L23-L31

@gp99 could you post here output of

ruby --version
lipo -info $(brew --prefix libcouchbase)/lib/libcouchbase.dylib
lipo -info $(rbenv which ruby)
ruby -rrbconfig -e 'puts(defined?(RbConfig::ARCHFLAGS) ? RbConfig::ARCHFLAGS : "RbConfig::ARCHFLAGS is not defined")'
ruby -rrbconfig -e '[RbConfig::CONFIG, RbConfig::MAKEFILE_CONFIG].each { |cfg| %w(CFLAGS LDFLAGS LDSHARED LIBRUBY_LDSHARED configure_args).each { |k| puts "#{k} => #{cfg[k]}" } }'

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