Problem with json and yajl-ruby requiring root privileges

[Panagiotis Atmatzidis]

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Hello everyone,

I'm trying to run a script on a remote FreeBSD server. I have user =
access only. The server runs precompiled ruby 1.8 with no rubygems =
installed. I installed rubygems on my $HOME and setup the env =
accordingly. Everything worked until I got to the point where I must use =
the 'twitter' gem.

Apparently 'twitter' gem requires 'json' or 'yajl-ruby' gems, which both =
for some reason try to chgrp/chwon the installation files. Here are the =
logs:

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[atma@server10 ~]$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i386-freebsd7]
[atma@server10 ~]$ gem -v
1.6.2
[atma@server10 ~]$ gem list --local

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

addressable (2.2.4)
faraday (0.5.7)
faraday_middleware (0.3.2)
hashie (1.0.0)
multi_json (0.0.5)
multi_xml (0.2.2)
multipart-post (1.1.0)
rack (1.2.2)
simple_oauth (0.1.4)
twitter (1.2.0)
ya2yaml (0.30)
[atma@server10 ~]$ gem install json
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing json:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/usr/local/bin/ruby18 extconf.rb
checking for re.h... yes
creating Makefile

make
cc -I. -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-freebsd7 =
-I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-freebsd7 -I. -DHAVE_RE_H -I/usr/include =
-fPIC -I/usr/include -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -c =
generator.c
cc -shared -o generator.so generator.o -L. -L/usr/local/lib =
-Wl,-R/usr/local/lib -L. -rpath=3D/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -rdynamic =
-Wl,-soname,generator.so -Wl,-R -Wl,/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib =
-lruby18 -lcrypt -lm -L/usr/lib -rpath=3D/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

make install
mkdir -p /home/www/atma/.gems/gems/json-1.5.1/ext/json/ext/json/ext
/usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel -m 0755 generator.so =
/home/www/atma/.gems/gems/json-1.5.1/ext/json/ext/json/ext
install: =
/home/www/atma/.gems/gems/json-1.5.1/ext/json/ext/json/ext/generator.so: =
chown/chgrp: Operation not permitted
*** Error code 71

Stop in /home/www/atma/.gems/gems/json-1.5.1/ext/json/ext/generator.


Gem files will remain installed in /home/www/atma/.gems/gems/json-1.5.1 =
for inspection.
Results logged to =
/home/www/atma/.gems/gems/json-1.5.1/ext/json/ext/generator/gem_make.out
[atma@server10 ~]$ =20

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The gem 'yajl-ruby' fails with the exact same error.


Best Regards,


Panagiotis (atmosx) Atmatzidis

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