Installing gitlab into my odroid went just fine... Using the steps from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/install/installation.md until this command
sudo -u git -H bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres aws
but that just failed to install therubyracer 0.12.0 (actually, what failed was compiling v8, because it requires the -fPIC flag). Here's the error message
/usr/bin/ld: /home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/libv8-3.16.14.3/vendor/v8/out/arm.release/obj.target/tools/gyp/libv8_base.a(api.o): relocation R_ARM_THM_MOVW_ABS_NC against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/libv8-3.16.14.3/vendor/v8/out/arm.release/obj.target/tools/gyp/libv8_base.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
So... I installed v8 on the system by cloning https://github.com/v8/v8 and doing a checkout of the commit 7ce3fe106a37826dc23189a78dcb9000a1b3fa06 (b/c that's what's used on libv8 on the tag v3.16.14.3 and that's the one Gitlab needs).
The missing flag is -fPIC, so after doing make dependencies
I did this change (doing it as a patch so that's easier to see... I just added -fPIC whenever -Wall is used)
--- build/standalone.gypi.original 2014-02-09 21:58:48.627732201 +0000
+++ build/standalone.gypi 2014-02-09 22:02:27.236682523 +0000
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
['OS=="linux" or OS=="freebsd" or OS=="openbsd" or OS=="solaris" \
or OS=="netbsd"', {
'target_defaults': {
- 'cflags': [ '-Wall', '<(werror)', '-W', '-Wno-unused-parameter',
+ 'cflags': [ '-fPIC', '-Wall', '<(werror)', '-W', '-Wno-unused-parameter',
'-Wnon-virtual-dtor', '-pthread', '-fno-rtti',
'-fno-exceptions', '-pedantic' ],
'ldflags': [ '-pthread', ],
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
'-fno-strict-aliasing',
],
'WARNING_CFLAGS': [
- '-Wall',
+ '-fPIC', '-Wall',
'-Wendif-labels',
'-W',
'-Wno-unused-parameter',
then ran make arm.release hardfp=on library=shared -j4
and waited... when it finished I just did sudo cp out/arm.release/lib.target/libv8.so /usr/lib/libv8.so
to have the lib available. I also did sudo cp include /usr/
so that the include files are available.
Checking which gems I have installed I get
odroid@odroid-server:~/v8$ gem query --local
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
bundler (1.5.3)
ref (1.0.5)
So, I executed sudo gem install libv8:3.16.14.3 -- --with-system-v8
And you can see that it's installed
odroid@odroid-server:~/v8/out/arm.release$ gem query --local
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
bundler (1.5.3)
libv8 (3.16.14.3)
ref (1.0.5)
But now, when I go to the /home/git/gitlab folder an run
sudo -u git -H bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres aws
Fails again... then, I read about bundle config, so I run
sudo -u git -H bundle config build.libv8 --with-system-v8
sudo -u git -H bundle install --deployment --without development test postgres aws
And voilá!
but... then this
odroid@odroid-server:/home/git/gitlab$ sudo -u git -H bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production
ruby: symbol lookup error: /home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/therubyracer-0.12.0/ext/v8/init.so: undefined symbol: _ZN2v82V821AddGCPrologueCallbackEPFvNS_6GCTypeENS_15GCCallbackFlagsEES1_
I tried copying everything from v8/out/arm.release/obj.target/tools/gyp to /usr/lib or even to /home/git/gitlab/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.0.0/gems/therubyracer-0.12.0/ext/v8/ without luck
Does anyone have any idea of how to make the v8 library available? I think that's the last bit of info I need to have it working.
Thanks!!!