[chef] All deployments suddenly start failing due to native gem extensions failing

[Prajwal Manjunath < >]

We had run a bunch of deployments on Friday and Saturday and everything was going smooth. 

We come back today and run some new deployments, and they start failing. Always, the issue is bundle install fails because compiling gem extension fails for json gem (I don't think this is related to that gem, it just happens to be the first on the list requiring a native extension).

This is the error trace:

Installing json (1.7.7) 

Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /usr/local/rubies/1.9.3-p392/bin/ruby extconf.rb 

creating Makefile

make

sh: make: command not found

I do not understand the `make: command not found` part. For one, gem install and even bundle install works fine when I run it manually(Our temp workaround is actually to comment out our bundle install commands in the recipe and run it manually after deployment). How can make suddenly disappear from Chef's path? We are on Chef 10.24.0. This issue suddenly appeared across ALL our deployments: remote AWS instances, local CENTOS development servers and even newly spinned off AWS instances. We're honestly buggered. Hope someone knows what's going on!