[oe] ruby-native problem (on dylan)

[Tobias Henkel]

Hello,

On 10/04/2013 10:09 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> hi,
>
> we got some build failures in our autobuilders last night, which
> seemed to be related to ruby-native. We use dylan, but I believe the
> same problem is there in master/dora too.
>
> The exact build error was in qtwebkit do_compile:
>
> ruby /mnt/ci_build/workspace/project/branches/dylan/label/oe_persistent_cloud/machines/genericarmv7a/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-vfp-neon-project-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.0.2-r0.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.0.2/Source/JavaScriptCore/offlineasm/generate_offset_extractor.rb
> /mnt/ci_build/workspace/project/branches/dylan/label/oe_persistent_cloud/machines/genericarmv7a/build/tmp/work/armv7ahf-vfp-neon-project-linux-gnueabi/qtwebkit/5.0.2-r0.0/qtwebkit-opensource-src-5.0.2/Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LowLevelInterpreter.asm
> LLIntDesiredOffsets.h
>
> <internal:gem_prelude>:1:in `require': cannot load such file --
> rubygems.rb (LoadError)
> from <internal:gem_prelude>:1:in `<compiled>'
>
> Yesterday I had 'moved' our BUILDDIR location. However for every build, we:
>   - delete the TMPDIR completely
>   - reuse our sstate
>
> The problem seems to be that 'ruby' has hard coded paths in the
> binary. This is discussed in [1] or more at length in [2], and easy to
> check:
>
> $ strings tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/ruby | grep project
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/x86_64-linux
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/x86_64-linux
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/rubygems
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/ruby
> /work/project/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/ruby/x86_64-linux
>
> So, the 'ruby' binary which was in the sstate, knew about the *old*
> paths. When building today, ruby was pulled from sstate, but TMPDIR
> has changed now, and the hardcoded paths no longer exists, leading to
> the build failure.
>
> I verified that the following 'solved' the build issue:
> $ bitbake -c cleansstate ruby-native
> $ bitbake ruby-native
> $ bitbake qtwebkit
>
> There seems to be a configure option, --enable-load-relative, after
> using this option in ruby build, still ruby fails to start for the
> same reason. I might have done something wrong, but i wanted to bring
> it on the list, to see if anyone has a better solution, as it seems
> like a big issue.
I saw the same issue in my setup and looked a bit deeper into it.
The patch "ruby-1.9.3-custom-rubygems-location.patch" seems to break 
--enable-load-relative.
When I remove this patch and add "--enable-load-relative" then ruby 
starts without an error. But this has the side effect that the rubygems 
directory is /usr/lib/ruby/rubygems instead of /usr/share/rubygems 
inside the sysroot. I don't know if this matters. Would it break 
anything else?
>
> thanks
>
> nicolas
>
>
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10221387/moving-ruby-installation-causes-it-to-not-function-how-to-get-around-this
> [2] http://yehudakatz.com/2012/06/
>

Best Regards
Tobias