installation problem on Mac + Anaconda: "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"

[kaidatavis]

I am new to Mac and stuck on the second last step of the installation instruction (the first 4 steps went well): npm install -g ijavascript

I have the latest Node (12.4.0) and NPM (6.9.0). It seems that the error is the c compiler (where is the config.log?):

checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq/zmq/zeromq-4.2.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

I do have the gcc compiler:

(base) Kais-MBP:~ kai$ gcc -v
Configured with: --prefix=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.6.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin

Also, I have both python 2 (/usr/local/bin/python2) and python 3 (/anaconda3/bin/python3). Calling 'python' will run python 3 (3.7.3) not python 2 (2.7.16); I am not sure if this is an issue.

Below is the full output:

(base) Kais-MBP:~ kai$ npm install -g ijavascript
/usr/local/bin/ijs -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/bin/ijavascript.js
/usr/local/bin/ijsconsole -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/bin/ijsconsole.js
/usr/local/bin/ijsinstall -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/bin/ijsinstall.js
/usr/local/bin/ijskernel -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/lib/kernel.js
/usr/local/bin/ijsnotebook -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/bin/ijsnotebook.js

> zeromq@4.6.0 install /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq
> node scripts/prebuild-install.js || (node scripts/preinstall.js && node-gyp rebuild)

prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.4.0 runtime=node arch=x64 platform=darwin)

Building libzmq for darwin
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '501' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '20' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq/zmq/zeromq-4.2.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
child process exited with code 77
make: Entering directory '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o
../binding.cc:28:10: fatal error: 'zmq.h' file not found
#include <zmq.h>
         ^~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [zmq.target.mk:129: Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq
gyp ERR! node -v v12.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! zeromq@4.6.0 install: `node scripts/prebuild-install.js || (node scripts/preinstall.js && node-gyp rebuild)`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the zeromq@4.6.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/kai/.npm/_logs/2019-06-12T23_55_51_043Z-debug.log
(base) Kais-MBP:~ kai$ 

Originally posted by @kaimdx in https://github.com/n-riesco/ijavascript/issues/184#issuecomment-501499746

[kaidatavis]

To find the config.log file, I tried find /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq -name config.log, but the result is No such file or directory.

(base) kais-mbp:~ kai$ find /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq -name config.log
find: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ijavascript/node_modules/zeromq: No such file or directory

Actually, I can't find ijavascript or config.log in the `/user/local':

(base) kais-mbp:local kai$ pwd
/usr/local
(base) kais-mbp:local kai$ find . -name ijavascript
(base) kais-mbp:local kai$ find . -name config.log
(base) kais-mbp:local kai$ 

[n-riesco]

Let's try to reproduce the issue with a local installation. Please, could you try the following?

cd
mkdir test
cd test
npm init --yes
npm install ijavascript
find . -name config.log

[kaidatavis]

This is the terminal output, which has the same error message and the find can't find the config.log file and there is no ijavascript directory under node_modules.

Last login: Thu Jun 13 10:25:49 on ttys000
(base) kais-mbp:~ kai$ cd
(base) kais-mbp:~ kai$ mkdir test
(base) kais-mbp:~ kai$ cd test/
(base) kais-mbp:test kai$ npm init --yes
Wrote to /Users/kai/test/package.json:

{
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}

(base) kais-mbp:test kai$ npm install ijavascript

> zeromq@4.6.0 install /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq
> node scripts/prebuild-install.js || (node scripts/preinstall.js && node-gyp rebuild)

prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.4.0 runtime=node arch=x64 platform=darwin)

Building libzmq for darwin
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '501' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '20' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/zmq/zeromq-4.2.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
child process exited with code 77
make: Entering directory '/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o
../binding.cc:28:10: fatal error: 'zmq.h' file not found
#include <zmq.h>
         ^~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [zmq.target.mk:129: Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq
gyp ERR! node -v v12.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN test@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN test@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! zeromq@4.6.0 install: `node scripts/prebuild-install.js || (node scripts/preinstall.js && node-gyp rebuild)`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the zeromq@4.6.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/kai/.npm/_logs/2019-06-13T10_07_29_927Z-debug.log
(base) kais-mbp:test kai$ find . -name config.log
(base) kais-mbp:test kai$ ls -al
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   4 kai  staff   128 13 Jun 11:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 42 kai  staff  1344 13 Jun 11:06 ../
drwxr-xr-x   5 kai  staff   160 13 Jun 11:07 node_modules/
-rw-r--r--   1 kai  staff   218 13 Jun 11:06 package.json
(base) kais-mbp:test kai$ ls node_modules/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  13 kai  staff  416 13 Jun 11:07 nel/
drwxr-xr-x  16 kai  staff  512 13 Jun 11:07 uuid/
(base) kais-mbp:test kai$ 

[n-riesco]

:thinking: I wonder whether this config.log is actually created.

Anyway, let's try something else. Since zeromq is the root of the problem, let's try to rebuild it:

cd node_modules/zeromq
npm install --verbose

[kaidatavis]

There isn't a zeromq directory under node_modules:

(base) kais-mbp:node_modules kai$ pwd
/Users/kai/test/node_modules
(base) kais-mbp:node_modules kai$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   5 kai  staff  160 13 Jun 11:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x   4 kai  staff  128 13 Jun 11:07 ../
drwxr-xr-x  13 kai  staff  416 13 Jun 11:07 .bin/
drwxr-xr-x  13 kai  staff  416 13 Jun 11:07 nel/
drwxr-xr-x  16 kai  staff  512 13 Jun 11:07 uuid/
(base) kais-mbp:node_modules kai$ 

Below is the output after ran npm install zeromq --verbose in the test directory. I also attached the log file mentioned at the bottom of the output, as it is otherwise too long to post in the comment. 2019-06-13T11_12_00_540Z-debug.log

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npm info it worked if it ends with ok
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npm verb cli   '/usr/local/bin/npm',
npm verb cli   'install',
npm verb cli   'zeromq',
npm verb cli   '--verbose'
npm verb cli ]
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> zeromq@5.1.0 install /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq
> node scripts/prebuild-install.js || (node scripts/preinstall.js && node-gyp rebuild)

prebuild-install info begin Prebuild-install version 5.2.1
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prebuild-install http request GET https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq.js/releases/download/v5.1.0/zeromq-v5.1.0-node-v72-darwin-x64.tar.gz
prebuild-install http 404 https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq.js/releases/download/v5.1.0/zeromq-v5.1.0-node-v72-darwin-x64.tar.gz
prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.4.0 runtime=node arch=x64 platform=darwin)

Building libzmq for darwin
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configure: error: in `/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/zmq/zeromq-4.2.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
child process exited with code 77
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#include <zmq.h>
         ^~~~~~~
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npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/kai/.npm/_logs/2019-06-13T11_12_00_540Z-debug.log

[n-riesco]

Have you checked if npm install zeromq created a config.log?

If it didn't, let's try to create it:

cd /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/
node scripts/preinstall.js
find . -name config.log

---

PS: Not really important now, but IJavascript uses zeromq@4 (the latest version is 5.1.0).

[kaidatavis]

Yes, there was a log file (/Users/kai/.npm/_logs/2019-06-13T11_12_00_540Z-debug.log), which I attached to the last post at it is quite long. I attached to this post again. This is generated after running npm install zeromq --verbose.

2019-06-13T11_12_00_540Z-debug.log

After running that, currently the node_modules directory is empty, no sub-directory at all. I can't run scripts/preinstall.js script as it does not exist.

(base) kais-mbp:node_modules kai$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 kai  staff   96 13 Jun 12:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x   4 kai  staff  128 13 Jun 11:07 ../
drwxr-xr-x  12 kai  staff  384 13 Jun 12:11 .bin/
(base) kais-mbp:node_modules kai$ 

[n-riesco]

I'm not after npm's log. I'd like to understand why configure fails with:

checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/zmq/zeromq-4.2.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
child process exited with code 77

This is what I get when I run the above in my test machine:

$ rm zmq/BUILD_SUCCESS 
$ node scripts/preinstall.js 
Building libzmq for linux
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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checking whether GID '1000' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
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checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
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checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether C compiler accepts -std=gnu11... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features by default... yes
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking whether to build with code coverage support... no
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... (cached) /bin/sed
checking for gawk... (cached) mawk
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for xmlto... no
checking for asciidoc... no
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... (cached) /bin/sed
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checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
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checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
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checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
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checking for archiver @FILE support... @
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checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
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checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes
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[n-riesco]

@kaimdx I'm not going to be able to look at this until Monday. Please, could you remind me on Monday if I haven't replied to you?

[kaidatavis]

@n-riesco sure, I will post a message here next Monday if I don't hear anything before that. I added a reminder in my calendar. Thanks.

[kaidatavis]

@n-riesco, as requested, a quick reminder about this issue.

[n-riesco]

@kaimdx Have you had chance to see what you get when you do this?

$ rm zmq/BUILD_SUCCESS 
$ node scripts/preinstall.js 
[...]

[kaidatavis]

I'm a bit confused.

I followed the initial testing steps, and the last line didn't find any config.log file.

cd
mkdir test
cd test
npm init --yes
npm install ijavascript
find . -name config.log

After these steps, there is no zeromq directory under node_modules (/user/kai/test/node_modules), so I can't run either these steps or these steps.

What I did try is to install zeromq in the test directory with the --verbose switch: npm install zeromq --verbose, the output of which is in this post, which has the log file 2019-06-13T11_12_00_540Z-debug.log attached (the log file mentioned at the end of the installation output). There is still no config.log file in this case.

[n-riesco]

Sorry about that. What I'd like to see is what you get when you run:

cd /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/
rm -f zmq/BUILD_SUCCESS
node scripts/preinstall.js
find . -name config.log

[kaidatavis]

@n-riesco what can I do if there is not a zeromq directory under node_modules (/user/kai/test/node_modules)? Do you think that the zeromq directory may be somewhere else? Just to confirm that I am running MacOS 10.14.5.

[n-riesco]

Let's try to install zeromq manually:

cd /Users/kai/test/
npm install zeromq

(npm install zeromq should output the folder where zeromq is installed).

And again:

cd /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/
rm -f zmq/BUILD_SUCCESS
node scripts/preinstall.js
find . -name config.log

[kaidatavis]

Below is the output from running npm install zeromq in the /user/kai/test directory. It does say that the zeromq directory is /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/. However, when I checked afterward the installation, there is still no zeromq directory under /user/kai/test/node_modules (the ls -al result is at the end of the output). Maybe zeromq directory is deleted because of the error?

(base) Kais-MacBook-Pro:test kai$ npm install zeromq

> zeromq@5.1.0 install /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq
> node scripts/prebuild-install.js || (node scripts/preinstall.js && node-gyp rebuild)

prebuild-install WARN install No prebuilt binaries found (target=12.4.0 runtime=node arch=x64 platform=darwin)

Building libzmq for darwin
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... config/install-sh -c -d
checking for gawk... no
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checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether UID '501' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking whether GID '20' is supported by ustar format... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/zmq/zeromq-4.2.2':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
child process exited with code 77
make: Entering directory '/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/build'
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o
../binding.cc:28:10: fatal error: 'zmq.h' file not found
#include <zmq.h>
         ^~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [zmq.target.mk:129: Release/obj.target/zmq/binding.o] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/build'
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:200:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 18.6.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq
gyp ERR! node -v v12.4.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN test@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN test@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! zeromq@5.1.0 install: `node scripts/prebuild-install.js || (node scripts/preinstall.js && node-gyp rebuild)`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the zeromq@5.1.0 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/kai/.npm/_logs/2019-06-18T10_22_32_124Z-debug.log
(base) Kais-MacBook-Pro:test kai$ cd node_modules/
(base) Kais-MacBook-Pro:node_modules kai$ ls
(base) Kais-MacBook-Pro:node_modules kai$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 kai  staff   96 18 Jun 11:22 ./
drwxr-xr-x   5 kai  staff  160 17 Jun 14:09 ../
drwxr-xr-x  12 kai  staff  384 17 Jun 14:09 .bin/
(base) Kais-MacBook-Pro:node_modules kai$ 

[n-riesco]

OK, let's clone zeromq's repo instead:

cd /Users/kai/test/node_modules/
git clone https://github.com/zeromq/zeromq.js.git  zeromq

cd /Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/
rm -f zmq/BUILD_SUCCESS
node scripts/preinstall.js
find . -name config.log

[kaidatavis]

Finally, there is a config.log file, which is attached. config.log

[n-riesco]

The relevant bit in that log (see below) is telling us that there is a conflict between the ld installed by anaconda (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang) and the ld provided by Apple.

Please, see this issue: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/9096

And please, let me know if this lead isn't enough, and you get stuck.

configure:4000: checking for gcc
configure:4027: result: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang
configure:4256: checking for C compiler version
configure:4265: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang --version >&5
clang version 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /anaconda3/bin
configure:4276: $? = 0
configure:4265: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang -v >&5
clang version 4.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_401/final)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /anaconda3/bin
configure:4276: $? = 0
configure:4265: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang -V >&5
clang-4.0: error: argument to '-V' is missing (expected 1 value)
clang-4.0: error: no input files
configure:4276: $? = 1
configure:4265: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang -qversion >&5
clang-4.0: error: unknown argument: '-qversion'
clang-4.0: error: no input files
configure:4276: $? = 1
configure:4296: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:4318: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0-clang -fPIC -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mmacosx-version-min=10.9 -Wl,-pie -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs conftest.c  >&5
ld: warning: ignoring file /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/lib/libSystem.tbd, file was built for unsupported file format ( 0x2D 0x2D 0x2D 0x20 0x21 0x74 0x61 0x70 0x69 0x2D 0x74 0x62 0x64 0x2D 0x76 0x33 ) which is not the architecture being linked (x86_64): /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX10.14.sdk/usr/lib/libSystem.tbd
ld: dynamic main executables must link with libSystem.dylib for architecture x86_64
clang-4.0: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
configure:4322: $? = 1
configure:4360: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "zeromq"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "zeromq"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "4.2.2"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "zeromq 4.2.2"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "zeromq"
| #define VERSION "4.2.2"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:4365: error: in `/Users/kai/test/node_modules/zeromq/zmq/zeromq-4.2.2':
configure:4367: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

[kaidatavis]

@n-riesco thanks for the information, but I don't understand the discussions in the issue mentioned: https://github.com/ContinuumIO/anaconda-issues/issues/9096.

I followed the steps described in the discussion (without understanding what it is doing), but still has the same error when I try npm install -g ijavascript afterwards (the same output as in the first post.

[n-riesco]

I'm not a mac user (so I can only be of limited help). Here are a few links that look useful:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53637414/conda-build-r-package-fails-at-c-compiler-issue-on-macos-mojave
• https://github.com/conda-forge/compilers-feedstock/issues/6
• https://github.com/conda-forge/mpi-feedstock/issues/4

[kaidatavis]

I managed to have ijavascript running now by:

1. removing the anaconda installation: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/uninstall/. I did this because it feels like that it is something that anaconda installed is interfering with the ijavascript installation, also personally I don't really like the approach of anacanda that installs lots of things that 1) might not be useful, 2) potentially duplicating/conflicting with what's already installed. Though it can be useful for people need everything or don't really care about this;
2. I then installed python3 (required by jupyter notebook) using pyenv following the instruction here: as it turns out it can be tricky to manage different versions of python on mac;
3. The next step is to install jupyter notebook using pip, which is quite straightforward: https://test-jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/rtd-theme/install.html#using-pip
4. Finally I just followed the steps on the ijavascript page and successfully completed all the steps.

[n-riesco]

@kaimdx Thank you for reporting back.