installing bson gem on fedora 42 fails

[Nilpointer]

I cannot build the bson gem on fedora 42. I get the error "unknown type bool" from the c compiler.
Last help was to patch ruby/3.3.8/include/ruby-3.3.0/ruby/internal/special_consts.h and there add the line

#include <stdbool.h>

Is there a better fix? Do I miss some dependencies?

Tested with ruby 3.3.8 and 3.4.3

Best Regards,
Andreas

[comandeo-mongo]

Hi @Nilpointer , I was trying to reproduce the issue, and the installation worked for me. Here is the Dockerfile I used:

FROM fedora:42

RUN dnf -y update && \
    dnf -y install ruby ruby-devel make gcc

RUN gem install bson

CMD ["ruby", "-e", "require 'bson'; puts BSON::VERSION"]

$ docker build -t bson-ruby-test .
[+] Building 0.6s (7/7) FINISHED                                                                                                                                                                                         docker:desktop-linux
 => [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile                                                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => => transferring dockerfile: 202B                                                                                                                                                                                                     0.0s
 => [internal] load metadata for docker.io/library/fedora:42                                                                                                                                                                             0.6s
 => [internal] load .dockerignore                                                                                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => => transferring context: 2B                                                                                                                                                                                                          0.0s
 => [1/3] FROM docker.io/library/fedora:42@sha256:ee88ab8a5c8bf78687ddcecadf824767e845adc19d8cdedb56f48521eb162b43                                                                                                                       0.0s
 => CACHED [2/3] RUN dnf -y update &&     dnf -y install ruby ruby-devel make gcc                                                                                                                                                        0.0s
 => CACHED [3/3] RUN gem install bson                                                                                                                                                                                                    0.0s
 => exporting to image                                                                                                                                                                                                                   0.0s
 => => exporting layers                                                                                                                                                                                                                  0.0s
 => => writing image sha256:0230d17bc5cf2675091623c40d9c81f1dd2f6f924cd6422753266363b6135fd4                                                                                                                                             0.0s
 => => naming to docker.io/library/bson-ruby-test                                                                                                                                                                                        0.0s

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$ docker run --rm bson-ruby-test
5.0.2

Can you please try to reproduce it is a docker container, and provide us with a dockerfile? Thanks!

[Nilpointer]

I manage my ruby versions using asdf (0.16 golang version). For the Dockerfile to run you need a asdf binary next to the Dockerfile from https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf/releases

FROM fedora:42

# Install dependencies
RUN dnf -y update && \
    dnf -y install autoconf gcc rust patch make bzip2 openssl-devel libyaml-devel \
    libffi-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel ncurses-devel perl-FindBin git curl awk zlib-devel

# Copy the new Go-based asdf binary
COPY ./asdf /usr/local/bin/asdf
RUN chmod +x /usr/local/bin/asdf

# Ensure asdf is in PATH
ENV PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

# Use asdf to install Ruby and a gem
RUN asdf plugin add ruby && \
    asdf install ruby 3.3.8 && \
    asdf set ruby 3.3.8 && \
    echo 'export PATH="/root/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.8/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc && \
    /bin/bash -c 'export PATH="/root/.asdf/installs/ruby/3.3.8/bin:$PATH" && ruby -v && gem install bson'

[comandeo-mongo]

I managed to reproduce it. Unfortunately, it it seems to be an issue in the Ruby itself - https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21290 Looks like not much can be done on our side.

[anquegi]

Same problem here with manjaro arch linux and gcc 15,

It is not possible to modify cflags to use gnu-17 instead of gnu-23 https://x.com/samsaffron/status/1925318407274340398

[comandeo-mongo]

This is fixed in #355, kudos to @pboling !

[anquegi]

Thanks it seems good do you @comandeo-mongo know, when will be released this hotfix, or in which version??

For the moment I compiled ruby with gcc-14 and bundle install also, it worked:

I use direnv and ruby-install with this .envc content: use ruby ruby-3.3.7

pamac install gcc14
CC=/usr/bin/gcc-14 ruby-install 3.3.7
CFLAGS="-std=gnu99" CC=gcc-14 CXX=g++-14 bundle install   

[pboling]

Installing from git source doesn't work on a JRuby build. Haven't looked into why, but it seems we need this to be properly released for it to work on JRuby @comandeo-mongo.

This is one example, but I've seen the same on other versions of mongoid and JRuby, so it seems to be universal.

Failed to load the necessary extensions: LoadError: no such file to load -- bson-ruby.jar
/home/runner/.rubies/jruby-9.3.15.0/lib/ruby/gems/shared/bundler/gems/bson-ruby-6743fd53db4f/lib/bson.rb:43: warning: already initialized constant BSON::BINARY
/home/runner/.rubies/jruby-9.3.15.0/lib/ruby/gems/shared/bundler/gems/bson-ruby-6743fd53db4f/lib/bson.rb:48: warning: already initialized constant BSON::NO_VALUE
/home/runner/.rubies/jruby-9.3.15.0/lib/ruby/gems/shared/bundler/gems/bson-ruby-6743fd53db4f/lib/bson.rb:53: warning: already initialized constant BSON::NULL_BYTE
/home/runner/.rubies/jruby-9.3.[15](https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-identity/actions/runs/15495852904/job/43632285070#step:11:16).0/lib/ruby/gems/shared/bundler/gems/bson-ruby-6743fd53db4f/lib/bson.rb:58: warning: already initialized constant BSON::UTF8
Failed to load the necessary extensions: LoadError: no such file to load -- bson-ruby.jar

An error occurred while loading ./spec_orms/mongoid_spec.rb.
Failure/Error: Unable to find org/jruby/RubyKernel.java to read failed line

LoadError:
  no such file to load -- bson-ruby.jar

ref: https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-identity/actions/runs/15495852904/job/43632285070