Can't compile on Ubuntu 9.10 64b REE 1.8.7 because of tarruby - any ideas?

[aemadrid]

Get errors when trying to compile tarruby. Googled but found nothing about it.

/home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/bin/ruby extconf.rb
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating listhash/libtar_listhash.h
config.status: creating listhash/libtar_list.c
config.status: creating listhash/libtar_hash.c
config.status: creating listhash/libtar_list_new.3
config.status: creating listhash/libtar_hash_new.3
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating libtar/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
for n in lib libtar doc; do
( cd $n && make all ) || exit 1;
done
make[1]: Entering directory /home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tarruby-0.1.5/ext/libtar/lib' gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o append.o append.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o block.o block.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o decode.o decode.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o encode.o encode.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o extract.o extract.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o handle.o handle.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o libtar_hash.o ../listhash/libtar_hash.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o libtar_list.o ../listhash/libtar_list.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o output.o output.c output.c: In function ‘th_print_long_ls’: output.c:129: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘free’ gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o util.o util.c util.c: In function ‘int_to_oct_nonull’: util.c:153: warning: field width should have type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘size_t’ util.c:153: warning: field width should have type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘size_t’ gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o wrapper.o wrapper.c wrapper.c: In function ‘tar_extract_glob’: wrapper.c:37: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘free’ wrapper.c:49: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘free’ wrapper.c:52: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘free’ wrapper.c: In function ‘tar_extract_all’: wrapper.c:88: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘free’ wrapper.c:91: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘free’ gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o strlcpy.o ../compat/strlcpy.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o basename.o ../compat/basename.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o dirname.o ../compat/dirname.c gcc -g -O2 -I. -I.. -I. -I../compat -I../listhash -c -o strmode.o ../compat/strmode.c ar rc libtar.a append.o block.o decode.o encode.o extract.o handle.o libtar_hash.o libtar_list.o output.o util.o wrapper.o strlcpy.o basename.o dirname.o strlcpy.o strmode.o ranlib libtar.a make[1]: Leaving directory/home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tarruby-0.1.5/ext/libtar/lib'
make[1]: Entering directory /home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tarruby-0.1.5/ext/libtar/libtar' gcc -g -O2 -I.. -I../lib -I../listhash -I../lib -I../compat -c -o libtar.o libtar.c libtar.c: In function ‘gzopen_frontend’: libtar.c:94: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size libtar.c: In function ‘usage’: libtar.c:271: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘exit’ gcc -g -O2 -o libtar libtar.o ../lib/libtar.a -lz make[1]: Leaving directory/home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tarruby-0.1.5/ext/libtar/libtar'
make[1]: Entering directory /home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tarruby-0.1.5/ext/libtar/doc' make[1]: Nothing to be done forall'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/tarruby-0.1.5/ext/libtar/doc'
checking for zlib.h... yes
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for bzlib.h... yes
checking for main() in -lbz2... yes
creating Makefile

make
gcc -I. -I. -I/home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux -I. -DHAVE_ZLIB_H -DHAVE_BZLIB_H -Ilibtar/lib -Ilibtar/listhash -fPIC -g -O2 -c tarruby.c
tarruby.c: In function ‘gzopen_frontend’:
tarruby.c:92: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
tarruby.c: In function ‘bzopen_frontend’:
tarruby.c:146: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
gcc -shared -o tarruby.so tarruby.o libtar/lib/libtar.a -L. -L/home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib -Wl,-R/home/aemadrid/ruby/ee-1.8.7-2010.01/lib -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -lbz2 -lz -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc
/usr/bin/ld: libtar/lib/libtar.a(append.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `dev_match' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
libtar/lib/libtar.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [tarruby.so] Error 1

[mitchellh]

Tarruby appeared to be the only library out there that could tar/untar files. I'm looking into this now. Another option is to attempt to use the tar system call and fall back to tarruby if it doesn't work (removing tarruby as a dependency).

I'm looking at the options available now.

[aemadrid]

Thanks!

[mitchellh]

An update once more. I believe John will be working on getting this integrated. We're going to go ahead with what I said earlier:

Vagrant will first try to use the tar system command. If it doesn't exist or fails, it will fall back on trying to use tarruby. This will remove tarruby from the list of required gem dependencies, which hopefully will get this running on your system, assuming it has tar ;)

We'll keep you posted.

[KieranP]

It looks like a contributor has made a switch from tarruby to archive-tar-minitar

Their reason:
Tarruby seems to not compile on 64-bit, and even its author says to use another library. Minitar seems to be more active than libarchive so I used that.

http://github.com/ilkka/vagrant/commits/

So from what I see, the issues tarruby has on 64bit machines is the cause of this issue.

[mitchellh]

Kieran,

Yep! Working on merging this in now. I need to add tests and it didn't quite work for additional files,but I've got it working now. Just testing.

[aemadrid]

Thanks for the update and the hard work. I'll check it out as soon as you have it merged.

[mitchellh]

aemadrid,

This should be fixed. I pushed the gem as prerelease for now. You can test it by doing a sudo gem install vagrant --pre. Other users with this issue in IRC have had success :)

Closing this issue.

[aemadrid]

That did it! thanks.