[chef] Problem bootstrapping chef-server on RHEL 5.4

[Friedrich Clausen < >]

Hi All,

Summary:

I am following the installation guide for chef-server using chef-solo
[1] and all went well up to the installation of the Ruby gem
"chef-server-api" which fails with

checking for main() in -lgecodesearch... no
Gecode >3.5 must be installed (http://www.gecode.org/).

Details:

I have gone through the RHEL/CentOS notes [2] and ensure the following is done

* SELinux is disabled
* EPEL repo is enabled
* /usr/local/lib is in ld.so.conf and "ldconfig -p | grep gecode"
shows that the relevant gecode libs are being "seen" by the linker.
* The gecode libraries are definitely in /usr/local/lib as opposed to
/usr/local/lib64

however it still appears that the chef-server-api gem is unable to
find the correct libraries. I also tried

* Setting "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib" but this did not help.
* Manually install the latest gecode libs in /usr/local but this did not help.

Any info would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Fred.

[1] 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo
[2] 
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+using+Chef+Solo#InstallingChefServerusingChefSolo-CentOS%2FRHELInstallationNotes