[chef] Chef 11.8 Dependency Question

[David Petzel < >]

TLDR - Chef 11.8.0 --> chef-zero --> Puma forces build tools, looking for a way to avoid that

Seemingly out of nowhere (between 08:40 and 17:20 pacific), our CI process for testing cookbooks is no longer worker. The error I'm seeing is:

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[2013-10-31T17:38:56-07:00] FATAL: Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: chef_gem[minitest-chef-handler] (minitest-handler::default line 13) had an error: Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /opt/chef/embedded/bin/ruby extconf.rb

creating Makefile

10.42.4.121

make

compiling puma_http11.c

make: gcc: Command not found

make: *** [puma_http11.o] Error 127

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My gem skillz are not top notch, but I believe after digging through debug level logging is that in 11.6.x puma was a development requirement, but not a runtime requirement, so it was never installed on our nodes

Now with 11.8.0, there is a dependency on chef-zero, which has a runtime dependency on Puma, so now it is trying to install it.

Where I get confused is that I'm running 10.26.0, so its unclear to me how that new dependency chain might affect me, but the timing is hard to ignore.

So my question is does that make sense, or am I way off base here? If it does make sense what options do I have to not have to have build tools on every box I want to install minitest-chef-handler?