Trying to install ruby 2.1.2 with rbenv on OSX BUILD FAILED

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So, as the title suggests, I'm trying to install ruby 2.1.2, altough I've tried to install other versions as well, and I'm getting the same errors. I'm running OSX 10.9.2.

I've tried:

Installing a fresh gcc compiler, via brew install gcc47

Installing updated OSX command line tools

Uninstalling rbenv and trying again

Restarting the machine

Here is the sum of what I'm getting:

rbenv install 2.1.2
Downloading ruby-2.1.2.tar.gz...
-> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/f22a6447811a81f3c808d1c2a5ce3b5f5f0955c68c9a749182feb4 25589e6635
Installing ruby-2.1.2...

BUILD FAILED

Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/6c/h_82199n12515_hd3rcp2x5w0000gn/T/ruby-build.20140528115901.38728
Results logged to /var/folders/6c/h_82199n12515_hd3rcp2x5w0000gn/T/ruby-build.20140528115901.38728.log

Last 10 log lines:
gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)
compiling miniinit.c
compiling miniprelude.c
translating probes probes.d
compiling bignum.c
compiling class.c
dtrace: failed to compile script probes.d: Preprocessor not found
make: *** [probes.h] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
compiling compar.c

Thoughts?

Gist of verbose output

Please include the output of `rbenv install --verbose 2.1.2` — Patrick Oscity, May 28 '14 at 18:17
That's a pretty massive amount of text...is there something specific you're looking for? — wvm2008, May 28 '14 at 19:16
Nothing specific, but remote diagnosis is in most cases easier with the greatest possible amount of information. Put it in a Gist if you don't want to post it here. — Patrick Oscity, May 28 '14 at 19:37
Can you disable dtrace (with `--disable-dtrace`)? Can you try other installer, like [ruby-install](https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install)? — wicz, Aug 01 '14 at 06:56

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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I was able to build it using:

CONFIGURE_OPTS="--disable-dtrace" rbenv install 2.1.2

Basically that's what is suggested in the question's comment by wicz.

The solution by KurtPreston did not work for me. Also using OS X 10.9.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Aug 28 '14 at 13:13

StephenKing

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '14 at 21:02

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I was able to get this working in my own environment by:

Removing the gcc installed by Homebrew: brew remove gcc47
Re-installing the XCode Command Line Tools from the XCode Downloads page at https://developer.apple.com/downloads

answered Aug 01 '14 at 21:02

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '14 at 19:57

I was trying to install 2.0 and ran into the same error. However now the CONFIGURE_OPTIONS override doesn't seem to work anymore with rvm at least, so I needed to build it with rvm install --reconfigure -C --disable-dtrace ruby-2.0.0-p594. This was the first Google result off the error message ("dtrace: failed to compile script probes.d: Preprocessor not found") so I figured I should add this as a current solution for rvm users. Running on OSX Mavericks.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 28 '14 at 20:16

I cannot reproduce this on my machine, sorry. For reference, here's my dtrace version if that should have anything to do with the error:

dtrace -V
  dtrace: Sun D 1.7

You can try to check for XCode and command line tools updates. GCC 4 should not be necessary, you can use the compiler that ships with XCode:

brew uninstall gcc4

Finally, update everything and try again:

brew update
brew upgrade rbenv ruby-build
rbenv uninstall 2.1.2
rbenv install 2.1.2

If that does not work yet: some people have reported that a simple reboot of the machine solved similar errors with dprobe/dtrace.

Trying to install ruby 2.1.2 with rbenv on OSX BUILD FAILED

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