Installing Jekyll on OS X 10.9.2
Ironically, as I was trying to install Jekyll to set up this blog on Github, I ran into a lot of problems. The command-line error wasn’t too helpful but it looked something like this:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing jekyll:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
creating Makefile
make "DESTDIR=" clean
make "DESTDIR="
compiling porter.c
porter.c:359:27: warning: '&&' within '||' [-Wlogical-op-parentheses]
if (a > 1 || a == 1 && !cvc(z, z->k - 1)) z->k--;
~~ ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
porter.c:359:27: note: place parentheses around the '&&' expression to silence this warning
if (a > 1 || a == 1 && !cvc(z, z->k - 1)) z->k--;
^
( )
1 warning generated.
compiling porter_wrap.c
linking shared-object stemmer.bundle
clang: error: unknown argument: '-multiply_definedsuppress' [-Wunused-command-line-argument-hard-error-in-future]
clang: note: this will be a hard error (cannot be downgraded to a warning) in the future
make: *** [stemmer.bundle] Error 1
make failed, exit code 2
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/fast-stemmer-1.0.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/extensions/universal-darwin-13/2.0.0/fast-stemmer-1.0.2/gem_make.out
Both the Jekyll troubleshooting page and StackOverflow recommended two ways to resolve installation issues:
- Making sure commandline tools was installed
- Making sure RubyGems was up to date with
sudo gem update --system
However, neither of these did the trick for me. Thankfully, after an hour of searching, I ended up finding the right clues here.
As per the StackOverflow link above, I installed Homebrew and RVM, using this guide; this did the trick. Success!
While I do wonder why RVM / Homebrew was necessary, it seems to be working for others as well. Thought I’d call it out for any others struggling out there, as I had difficulty finding the right clues on Stack Overflow.