MacOS: error 'cputype does not match previous archive members' since ffi-1.9.21

[dqh-au]

Hi,

Today our project that depends on compass, that depends on ffi, stopped building. To workaround, I changed:

gem install -i ./compass compass --version $COMPASS_VERSION

to

CFLAGS="--disable-asm-optimizations" gem install -i ./compass compass --version $COMPASS_VERSION

Hope this helps.

[unimatrixZxero]

Yes, thanks, it helped me. Installs now on Mac OS X 10.3.3 (17D47) (MBP 15" mid-2015 2.8 GHz i7)

[jeffblake]

brew install automake

Worked for me.

[vinhboy]

Confirmed conflict on Mac 10.13.3

Running autoreconf for libffi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --output=aclocal.m4t
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.69/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory
make: ***

@jeffblake's fix worked

[kusma]

I'm seeing the same problem. The specific error I'm getting is:

libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libffi_convenience.a src/.libs/prep_cif.o src/.libs/types.o src/.libs/raw_api.o src/.libs/java_raw_api.o src/.libs/closures.o src/x86/.libs/ffi64.o src/x86/.libs/unix64.o src/x86/.libs/ffiw64.o src/x86/.libs/win64.o 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(ffi64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(unix64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(ffiw64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(win64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libffi_convenience.a
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(ffi64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(unix64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(ffiw64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(win64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)
make[3]: *** [libffi_convenience.la] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** ["/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.3.0/gems/ffi-1.9.21/ext/ffi_c"/libffi-i386/.libs/libffi_convenience.a] Error 2

So it seems the problem is mixing 32-bit and 64-bit object files in the same archive.

Passing CFLAGS="--disable-asm-optimizations" worked fine for me as well.

[larskanis]

OK, just pushed ffi-1.9.22, which hopefully solves this issue. Could you please re-try?

[larskanis]

@pmanrubia Thanks for responding, but your issue was about "autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory"

Is the original issue resolved, what CFLAGS="--disable-asm-optimizations" is required or otherwise the following error ocures?

libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libffi_convenience.a src/.libs/prep_cif.o src/.libs/types.o src/.libs/raw_api.o src/.libs/java_raw_api.o src/.libs/closures.o src/x86/.libs/ffi64.o src/x86/.libs/unix64.o src/x86/.libs/ffiw64.o src/x86/.libs/win64.o 
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/ranlib: archive member: .libs/libffi_convenience.a(ffi64.o) cputype (16777223) does not match previous archive members cputype (7) (all members must match)

[kusma]

@larskanis: Doesn't seem to be fixed; I still get cputype 16777223 mixed with cputype 7 with ffi-1.9.22 without CFLAGS="--disable-asm-optimizations".

[pmanrubia]

@larskanis I do apologise, I linked to the wrong issue. I have deleted my comment as they can cause trouble to other users.

[dqh-au]

Yes still broken here, please reopen this bug if the issue isn't being tracked elsewhere

[larskanis]

Can someone post a full console output of gem install with this issue? My guess is that it's related to the multi arch build on darwin. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this - I don't have a Mac.

[matteosecli]

CFLAGS="--disable-asm-optimizations" gem install ffi -v '1.9.22' works for me; it doesn't without the suggested CFLAGS. gem install ffi -v '1.9.18', instead, works without any issue.

I'm on a MBP 15" (2017) with an i7-7820HQ CPU.

Logs (gem_make.out and mkmf.log):
ffi-1.9.22_logs.zip

[larskanis]

Could you please try

gem inst ffi --pre

I've got some hope that it solves this issue...

[matteosecli]

Could you please try

gem inst ffi --pre

The above command works fine, I've just installed ffi-1.9.23.pre1 without any issue!

[larskanis]

@matteosecli Thanks for the confirmation! I just pushed final ffi-1.9.23 to rubygems.org. It should fix this issue, so that the workaround to use CFLAGS="--disable-asm-optimizations" isn't needed any longer.

[matteosecli]

That's great, thank you! 😄