ZeroMQ autogen failed

[wokibe]

On my Mac 10.9.5 (Mavericks) the rbczmq installation failed:

iMac:~ kittekat$ gem install rbczmq
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rbczmq:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/Users/kittekat/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.3/bin/ruby extconf.rb
"./autogen.sh"
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I config --force -I config
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory foreign/openpgm/build-staging/openpgm/pgm/ not present
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/bin/autoconf --include=config --force
configure.ac:57: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:58: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure:5345: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
configure:5349: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_STATIC
autoreconf: /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
autogen.sh: error: autoreconf exited with status 0
ZeroMQ autogen failed!
*** extconf.rb failed ***
...

Could not find the cause for the trouble. I am confused about the mentioned ...WIN32_DLL. This is a
Mac!

Here are the versions of the required tools:

iMac:~ kittekat$ libtool -V
Apple Inc. version cctools-862
iMac:~ kittekat$ autoconf -V
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
...
-iMac:~ kittekat$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1

Anyway, I found for me a workaround: I installed zeromq (4.0.4) and czmq (2.0.2) with homebrew and rbczmq (1.7.8) as "slim" gem:
brew install zeromq
brew install czmq
gem install rbczmq -- --wirh-system-libs

[methodmissing]

@wokibe thanks for the brilliant context - I'll take a look and fix the bundled libs shortly.

[quackingduck]

Same deal here

$ gem install rbczmq

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rbczmq:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20150708-40430-k9lwlq.rb extconf.rb
"./autogen.sh"
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I config --force -I config
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory foreign/openpgm/build-staging/openpgm/pgm/ not present
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/bin/autoconf --include=config --force
configure.ac:57: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:58: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure:5346: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
configure:5350: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_STATIC
autoreconf: /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
autogen.sh: error: autoreconf exited with status 0
ZeroMQ autogen failed!
*** 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=/Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
    --with-system-libs
    --without-system-libs

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rbczmq-1.7.9 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-14/2.2.0-static/rbczmq-1.7.9/gem_make.out

Couldn't get it to work with --with-system-libs either 😞

~ $ gem install rbczmq

$ brew install zeromq czmq && gem install rbczmq -- --with-system-libs
Warning: zeromq-4.1.2 already installed
Warning: czmq-3.0.2 already installed
Building native extensions with: '--with-system-libs'
This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing rbczmq:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20150708-41352-1i71oql.rb extconf.rb --with-system-libs
Warning -- using system version of libzmq.
Warning -- using system version of libczmq.
checking for ruby/thread.h... yes
checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... no
checking for rb_thread_call_without_gvl()... yes
checking for zmq.h in /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rbczmq-1.7.9/ext/zeromq/include... yes
checking for czmq.h in /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rbczmq-1.7.9/ext/czmq/include... yes
checking for main() in -lzmq... no
Error compiling and linking libzmq
*** 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=/Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
    --with-system-libs
    --with-system-libs
    --with-rbczmq-dir
    --without-rbczmq-dir
    --with-rbczmq-include
    --without-rbczmq-include=${rbczmq-dir}/include
    --with-rbczmq-lib
    --without-rbczmq-lib=${rbczmq-dir}/lib
    --with-zmqlib
    --without-zmqlib

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/rbczmq-1.7.9 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/mylesbyrne/.rbenv/versions/2.2.2/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-14/2.2.0-static/rbczmq-1.7.9/gem_make.out

Versions:

$ sw_vers

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.10.3
BuildVersion:   14D136

$ libtool -V
Apple Inc. version cctools-870

$ autoconf -V
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.15
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Tom Tromey <[email protected]>
       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[email protected]>.

[quackingduck]

Derp. Installing autogen (brew install autogen) fixed it 🎉

[jhroy]

Just wanted to let you know I had the same problem as @wokibe. Even though I'm on Yosemite, @wokibe 's solution worked very well. I can now run iRuby notebooks fine. Thanks! 👍