Having difficulty installing ruby-filemagic gem on new RHEL6 server
bundler, ruby, ruby-on-rails-3.1, rubygems
Solution
I needed to do:
yum install file-devel
That apparently contains the libmagic header files that the filemagic ruby gem required in order to compile. It worked like a champ after that.
Problem
It appears to be looking for the libmagic.so.1 file. I have that file. It is located in /usr/lib64. I am not running this installation as the root user. I am also using rvm and Bundler. This is the result of my "bundle" command, when it gets to the ruby-filemagic line in my Gemfile: ``` [server@mine ext]$ ruby extconf.rb --with-magiclib checking for magic_open() in -ltrue... no *** ERROR: missing required library to compile this module *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. ``` UPDATE: Here are the results of the mkmf.log: ``` have_library: checking for magic_open() in -ltrue... -------------------- no "gcc -o conftest -I. -I/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p358/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux -I. -g -O2 -fPIC conftest.c -L. -L/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p358/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p358/lib -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -lruby-static -ltrue -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc" conftest.c: In function ‘t’: conftest.c:3: error: ‘magic_open’ undeclared (first use in this function) conftest.c:3: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once conftest.c:3: error: for each function it appears in.) checked program was: /* begin */ 1: /*top*/ 2: int main() { return 0; } 3: int t() { void ((*volatile p)()); p = (void ((*)()))magic_open; return 0; } /* end */ "gcc -o conftest -I. -I/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p358/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux -I. -g -O2 -fPIC conftest.c -L. -L/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p358/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p358/lib -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -lruby-static -ltrue -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc" /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ltrue collect2: ld returned 1 exit status checked program was: /* begin */ 1: /*top*/ 2: int main() { return 0; } 3: int t() { magic_open(); return 0; } /* end */ ``` I can't figure out what to do to make this work.