Build Failure on WSL: Ubuntu 22.04 on x86_64 using ruby-build 20231107

[nzifnab]

I have installed rbenv and ruby-build using homebrew and installed the dependencies using apt-get as described here: https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build/wiki#ubuntudebianmint

Environment Details

zifnab:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Release:        22.04
Codename:       jammy
zifnab:~$ ruby-build --version
ruby-build 20231107
zifnab:~$ rbenv --version
rbenv 1.2.0
zifnab:~$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

I can't seem to install any version of ruby using rbenv (Though this worked fine a few months ago).

When I try to install with rbenv install 3.0.6 --verbose, this is the full output:
https://gist.github.com/nzifnab/5515ecadf74aa2bae830cff962bd91c1

And here is the error in the log itself:

compiling symbol.c
compiling thread.c
during GIMPLE pass: pre
parse.y: In function ‘is_static_content’:
parse.y:11599:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
11599 | is_static_content(NODE *node)
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
0xd7a791 internal_error(char const*, ...)
        ???:0
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
Please include the complete backtrace with any bug report.
See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-11/README.Bugs> for instructions.
compiling time.c
make: *** [Makefile:425: parse.o] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

The error line itself changes each time I try to install, for instance, a 2nd run gives me the error here (rest is truncated for brevity):

compiling time.c
compiling transcode.c
compiling transient_heap.c
during RTL pass: bbro
parse.y: In function ‘reduce_nodes’:
parse.y:11596:1: internal compiler error: in fixup_reorder_chain, at cfgrtl.c:3968
11596 | }
      | ^
0xd7a791 internal_error(char const*, ...)
        ???:0
0xd71eca fancy_abort(char const*, int, char const*)
        ???:0
Please submit a full bug report,

And yet another time, like this:

compiling thread.c
compiling time.c
compiling transcode.c
during RTL pass: *free_cfg
gc.c: In function ‘gc_update_object_references’:
gc.c:9297:1: internal compiler error: in insert_section_boundary_note, at bb-reorder.c:2619
 9297 | }
      | ^
0xd7a791 internal_error(char const*, ...)
        ???:0
0xd71eca fancy_abort(char const*, int, char const*)
        ???:0
Please submit a full bug report,

As you can see, each time seems to fail with a different error line, and I'm at a loss as to what's going on here.

When trying to install rbenv install 3.2.2, the installer will frequently hang instead of giving an error, here:

compiling enc/unicode.c
compiling enc/utf_8.c
compiling enc/trans/newline.c
warning: variable does not need to be mutable
   --> ./yjit/src/asm/mod.rs:627:17
    |
627 |             let mut cb = CodegenGlobals::get_inline_cb();
    |                 ----^^
    |                 |
    |                 help: remove this `mut`
    |
    = note: `#[warn(unused_mut)]` on by default

warning: variable does not need to be mutable
   --> ./yjit/src/asm/mod.rs:632:17
    |
632 |             let mut ocb = CodegenGlobals::get_outlined_cb().unwrap();
    |                 ----^^^
    |                 |
    |                 help: remove this `mut`

warning: variable does not need to be mutable
    --> ./yjit/src/core.rs:1487:13
     |
1487 |         let mut last_target = match &mut last_branch.targets {
     |             ----^^^^^^^^^^^
     |             |
     |             help: remove this `mut`

warning: 3 warnings emitted

touch yjit/target/release/libyjit.a

And then it just sits there not doing anything

When trying to use rbenv install 3.2.2

I've also tried locking the openssl version when installing ruby 3.2.2:

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-open-ssl-dir=$(brew --prefix openssl@3)" rbenv install 3.2.2 --verbose

But it's still hanging every time it hits that touch yjit/target/release/libyjit.a line.

[nzifnab]

I'm still unclear why the ruby 3.0.6 install was failing, but I have a working version of that in a different instance of WSL so I'm not going to worry about it... looking at that working instance, I suspect it has something to do with openssl:

zifnab:~$ ruby --version
ruby 3.0.6p216 (2023-03-30 revision 23a532679b) [x86_64-linux]
zifnab:~$ ruby -r openssl -e 'puts OpenSSL::OPENSSL_VERSION'
OpenSSL 1.1.1t  7 Feb 2023

1.1.1t... so when trying a modern install with openssl 3, is that why it's failing horribly and giving segfaults and the like?

I was able to get ruby 3.2.2 installed by using openssl 3.1 from homebrew and DISABLING yjit:

RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-open-ssl-dir=$(brew --prefix openssl@3) --disable-yjit" rbenv install 3.2.2 --verbose

I'll be honest... I don't know what yjit does, and afaik we don't use rust, but I have no idea why it was hanging on that with no error. I left it for 2 hours and came back and it was still hung on that same line. This latest one seems to have worked by disabling that

[mislav]

That's really weird. I cannot imagine what was the problem. Thanks for sharing your workaround!

[kalicki]

In my case this resolved:

apt-get install -y libssl-dev && apt-get install -y libyaml-dev

[osmanbowser]

Ran into the same issue on Ubuntu 22.04 but while using ASDF.

Kept getting the error BUILD FAILED (Ubuntu 22.04 on x86_64 using ruby-build 20231107)

Turns out that I had curl installed incorrectly

Here's how I fixed it:

1. Uninstall snap curl sudo snap remove curl
2. Reinstall curl properly sudo apt install curl
3. Update apt-get sudo apt-get update
4. Install the necessary packages (referencing GoRails] sudo apt-get install git-core zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev software-properties-common libffi-dev
5. Add the necessary plugins for Rails asdf plugin add ruby and asdf plugin add nodejs (most likely unrelated to the issue but needed for Rails)
6. Install ruby using asdf install ruby 3.2.2

The build succeeded and I was able to finish installing Rails.

Hope this helps!

[KelsonF]

It worked, thanks for the help =)

[nzifnab]

Another solution that worked for me to resolve the SEGFAULT was to change the number of MAKE_OPTS. ruby-build was defaulting to make -j 32, but if I use MAKE_OPTS=-j2 rbenv install 3.3.1 then it suddenly works. I wonder if the number of CPU cores in my WSL environment is not as many as it thinks.