patron gem fail

patron

Installing patron 0.4.20 with native extensions
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /home/ubuntu/.rbenv/versions/2.2.3/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20151121-13137-yck58r.rb extconf.rb

checking for curl-config... no
checking for main() in -lcurl... no
*** 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=/home/ubuntu/.rbenv/versions/2.2.3/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
        --with-curl-dir
        --without-curl-dir
        --with-curl-include
        --without-curl-include=${curl-dir}/include
        --with-curl-lib
        --without-curl-lib=${curl-dir}/lib
        --with-curllib
        --without-curllib
extconf.rb:34:in `<main>':   Can't find libcurl or curl/curl.h (RuntimeError)
  Try passing --with-curl-dir or --with-curl-lib and --with-curl-include
  options to extconf.
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /home/ubuntu/.rbenv/versions/2.2.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/gems/patron-0.4.20 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/ubuntu/.rbenv/versions/2.2.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.2.0-static/patron-0.4.20/gem_make.out
An error occurred while installing patron (0.4.20), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install patron -v '0.4.20'` succeeds before bundling.

@bakeris Thanks! Got this issue and fixed it for me as well.

@IanVaughan
@bakeris
Yikes!
Thank you soooooo much for this article. Whew! I was going insane.

So how on earth is anybody supposed to figure that out? when their patron gem install fails?

Could you explain how you knew this library was the culprit? So I might be able to live one more day in the event that I am unable to stumble upon the appropriate Google result?

Cheers again

@bakeris you safe me

This didn't fix my issue. But following lines did:

sudo apt remove -y libcurl4
sudo apt install -y libcurl4 curl libcurl4-openssl-dev

Fix that worked for me with Homebrew + macOS

brew reinstall openssl
export LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/
bundle

I wonder what should I install on Alpine Linux.

UPD: apk add ruby-dev curl-dev build-base

sudo apt-get install libcurl3-dev
This should fix it

Thanks 👍

for centos 7

$ yum install libcurl-devel

thanks for your response it worked for me!

@gabbio work for me, thank's

@gabbio

sudo apt-get install libcurl3-dev This should fix it

Thanks, man

@gabbio work for me, thank's