I know there are a lot of questions about this gem but no answer has worked for me.
When I run in SSH gem install nokogiri I get this error:
Extracting libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz into tmp/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.8.0... OK
Running patch with /home/user58952277/.gem/ruby/1.9.3/gems/nokogiri-1.6.2.1/ports/patches/libxml2/0001-Fix-parser-local-buffers-size-problems.patch...
Running 'patch' for libxml2 2.8.0... ERROR, review 'tmp/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.8.0/patch.log' to see what happened.
*** 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.
My host told me that all libs are installed. Here are the full logs after executing the install nokogiri command:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
Building libxml2-2.8.0 for nokogiri with the following patches applied:
- 0001-Fix-parser-local-buffers-size-problems.patch
- 0002-Fix-entities-local-buffers-size-problems.patch
- 0003-Fix-an-error-in-previous-commit.patch
- 0004-Fix-potential-out-of-bound-access.patch
- 0005-Detect-excessive-entities-expansion-upon-replacement.patch
- 0006-Do-not-fetch-external-parsed-entities.patch
- 0007-Enforce-XML_PARSER_EOF-state-handling-through-the-pa.patch
- 0008-Improve-handling-of-xmlStopParser.patch
- 0009-Fix-a-couple-of-return-without-value.patch
- 0010-Keep-non-significant-blanks-node-in-HTML-parser.patch
- 0011-Do-not-fetch-external-parameter-entities.patch
************************************************************************
IMPORTANT! Nokogiri builds and uses a packaged version of libxml2.
If this is a concern for you and you want to use the system library
instead, abort this installation process and reinstall nokogiri as
follows:
gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries
If you are using Bundler, tell it to use the option:
bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries
bundle install
However, note that nokogiri does not necessarily support all versions
of libxml2.
For example, libxml2-2.9.0 and higher are currently known to be broken
and thus unsupported by nokogiri, due to compatibility problems and
XPath optimization bugs.
************************************************************************
ERROR: Error installing nokogiri:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.3/bin/ruby extconf.rb
Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
checking for iconv.h... yes
checking for iconv_open() in iconv.h... yes
Building libxml2-2.8.0 for nokogiri with the following patches applied:
- 0001-Fix-parser-local-buffers-size-problems.patch
- 0002-Fix-entities-local-buffers-size-problems.patch
- 0003-Fix-an-error-in-previous-commit.patch
- 0004-Fix-potential-out-of-bound-access.patch
- 0005-Detect-excessive-entities-expansion-upon-replacement.patch
- 0006-Do-not-fetch-external-parsed-entities.patch
- 0007-Enforce-XML_PARSER_EOF-state-handling-through-the-pa.patch
- 0008-Improve-handling-of-xmlStopParser.patch
- 0009-Fix-a-couple-of-return-without-value.patch
- 0010-Keep-non-significant-blanks-node-in-HTML-parser.patch
- 0011-Do-not-fetch-external-parameter-entities.patch
************************************************************************
IMPORTANT! Nokogiri builds and uses a packaged version of libxml2.
If this is a concern for you and you want to use the system library
instead, abort this installation process and reinstall nokogiri as
follows:
gem install nokogiri -- --use-system-libraries
If you are using Bundler, tell it to use the option:
bundle config build.nokogiri --use-system-libraries
bundle install
However, note that nokogiri does not necessarily support all versions
of libxml2.
For example, libxml2-2.9.0 and higher are currently known to be broken
and thus unsupported by nokogiri, due to compatibility problems and
XPath optimization bugs.
************************************************************************
Extracting libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz into tmp/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.8.0... OK
Running patch with /home/user58952277/.gem/ruby/1.9.3/gems/nokogiri-1.6.2.1/ports/patches/libxml2/0001-Fix-parser-local-buffers-size-problems.patch...
Running 'patch' for libxml2 2.8.0... ERROR, review 'tmp/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/ports/libxml2/2.8.0/patch.log' to see what happened.
*** 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.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.3/bin/ruby
--help
--clean
--use-system-libraries
--enable-static
--disable-static
--with-zlib-dir
--without-zlib-dir
--with-zlib-include
--without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include
--with-zlib-lib
--without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib
--enable-cross-build
--disable-cross-build
/home/user58952277/.gem/ruby/1.9.3/gems/mini_portile-0.6.0/lib/mini_portile.rb:279:in `block in execute': Failed to complete patch task (RuntimeError)
from /home/user58952277/.gem/ruby/1.9.3/gems/mini_portile-0.6.0/lib/mini_portile.rb:271:in `chdir'
from /home/user58952277/.gem/ruby/1.9.3/gems/mini_portile-0.6.0/lib/mini_portile.rb:271:in `execute'
from extconf.rb:282:in `block in patch'
from extconf.rb:279:in `each'
from extconf.rb:279:in `patch'
from /home/user58952277/.gem/ruby/1.9.3/gems/mini_portile-0.6.0/lib/mini_portile.rb:108:in `cook'
from extconf.rb:253:in `block in process_recipe'
from extconf.rb:154:in `tap'
from extconf.rb:154:in `process_recipe'
from extconf.rb:419:in `<main>'
Finally, the problem was caused by nokogiri itself by shipping it's own libxml2 that's incompatible with some systems.
So to install nokogiri I had to tell it that it should use the system libraries.
I installed it manually by:
gem install nokogiri -v 1.6.2.1 -- --use-system-libraries
And it worked well. Other answers didn't solve it.