Bug #20185
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Switch back to using binary ruby when rvm is fixed
Description
In order to fix the issue described below, our Debian 11 package build and package test Docker images use --disable-binary (see 907983bcaaf9cf2f058d150b2e91dcbfba465074). This increases build time substantially, so we should switch back to using pre-built packages from rvm if/when they are updated.
Original issue¶
Ruby gems that involve C extensions are failing to build with this error
make: /usr/bin/mkdir: No such file or directory
Example:
build-packages-debian11: #676 /consoleFull
This is affecting multiple different gems. I've seen it with 'racc' and
'ffi'.
Other projects have been bitten by this:
https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/2046
https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/issues/724
https://github.com/fullstaq-ruby/server-edition/issues/101
Tentatively, the problem seems to be that Ruby records the location of mkdir when it is built/installed. Our package build uses rvm to install Ruby. It seems that all the packages were rebuilt Feb 22:
https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/debian/11/x86_64/
I'm wondering if these packages were prepared on a system that had /usr/bin/mkdir even though the standard debian image is /bin/mkdir.
On further research, this looks like exactly the issue listed here:
https://github.com/rvm/rvm/issues/4975
I filed a new bug:
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