libyajl2-gem

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gem to install the libyajl2 c-library for distributions which do not have it

NOTE

To build this depends on libgmp and its headers being installed. On Ubuntu:

apt-get install libgmp-dev

If you get a mysterious "unhandled exception" build failure like:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing libyajl2:
  ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

      /home/lamont/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.3/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20151209-53133-1aq7vdk.rb extconf.rb
      creating Makefile
      /home/lamont/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3/gems/libyajl2-1.2.0/ext/libyajl2
      extconf.rb:104:in `makemakefiles': unhandled exception
        from extconf.rb:138:in `<main>'

        extconf failed, exit code 1

        Gem files will remain installed in /home/lamont/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3/gems/libyajl2-1.2.0 for inspection.
        Results logged to /home/lamont/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3/extensions/x86_64-linux/2.2.0/libyajl2-1.2.0/gem_make.out

Look at the output of make.out in the same directory as extconf.rb, for my example above that looks like:

# cat /home/lamont/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.3/gems/libyajl2-1.2.0/ext/libyajl2/make.out
compiling yajl_buf.c
compiling yajl.c
compiling yajl_gen.c
compiling yajl_tree.c
compiling yajl_encode.c
compiling yajl_parser.c
compiling yajl_alloc.c
compiling yajl_version.c
compiling yajl_lex.c
linking shared-object libyajl.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgmp
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libyajl.so] Error 1

Which gives the correct error that -lgmp was not found...