[chef] Re: Re: gem install knife-azure errors

[AJ Christensen < >]

Try using bundler to install knife-azure (and dependencies).

$ cat > Gemfile
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'knife-azure'
^D
$ bundle install

Cheers,

AJ

On 25 May 2013 01:27, Ashutosh Narayan 
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 wrote:
> I was able to fix it.
> Instead of running "rake gem:install" , I ran "rake install"
> It installed FFI gem
>
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> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Ashutosh Narayan
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>  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried installing FFI from the GIT repository -
>> https://github.com/ffi/ffi.git
>> But when I execute rake gem:install it says [warn] YARD unavailable.
>> So I install YARD gem and again run rake gem:install, i still get the
>> below error :
>>
>> [warn] YARD unavailable
>> rake aborted!
>> Don't know how to build task 'gem:install'
>>
>> (See full trace by running task with --trace)
>>
>> Any pointers ?
>>
>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Ashutosh Narayan
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>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> I am installing a knife-azure plugin using gem to make API calls to Azure
>>> for listing,
>>> creating and deleting instances. But I get too many dependencies error.
>>> One of them was rspec so I installed it, i now get another error message
>>> saying
>>> ffi.h is missing. Here is the error that was thrown on the console -
>>>
>>> 
 
>>>  ~]# gem install ffi
>>> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>>> ..
>>> .
>>> ERROR:  Error installing ffi:
>>> ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>>>
>>>         /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
>>> checking for ffi.h... no
>>> checking for ffi.h in /usr/local/include,/usr/include/ffi... no
>>> checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... no
>>> checking for rb_thread_call_with_gvl()... no
>>> checking for rb_thread_call_without_gvl()... no
>>> checking for ffi_prep_cif_var()... no
>>> creating extconf.h
>>> creating Makefile
>>>
>>> make
>>> Configuring libffi
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-1.8.1/ext/ffi_c/libffi/configure: line
>>> 550: 0: Bad file descriptor
>>> make: ***
>>> ["/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-1.8.1/ext/ffi_c/libffi-x86_64-linux"/.libs/libffi_convenience.a]
>>> Error 1
>>>
>>> Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-1.8.1
>>> for inspection.
>>> Results logged to
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-1.8.1/ext/ffi_c/gem_make.out
>>>
>>> How can I resolve this ?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ashutosh Narayan
>>>
>>> http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ashutosh Narayan
>>
>> http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ashutosh Narayan
>
> http://ashutoshn.wordpress.com/
>