Ruby bindings don't build on macOS

oetiker / rrdtool-1.x

RRDtool 1.x - Round Robin Database

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Ruby bindings don't build on macOS #1124

Open Nakilon opened 3 years ago

Nakilon commented 3 years ago

To Reproduce

$ git clone git@github.com:oetiker/rrdtool-1.x.git
$ cd rrdtool-1.x/bindings/ruby/
$ ruby extconf.rb
checking for rrd_create() in -lrrd... yes
creating Makefile
$ make
compiling main.c
main.c:8:10: fatal error: 'rrd_tool.h' file not found
#include "rrd_tool.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

Environment

macOS 11.4
rbenv ruby 2.3.8p459
homebrew RRDtool 1.7.2

Nakilon commented 3 years ago

This gem worked for me: https://github.com/bernd/librrd-ruby

However Alpine is missing librrd-dev: https://github.com/bernd/librrd-ruby/issues/6#issuecomment-877794033