Attempting to build omnibus-toolchain on ppc64le fails

[drhey]

I am attempting to build the omnibus-toolchain on a RHEL ppc64le system. I've installed the needful packages (autoconf bison flex gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel make m4 patch gettext-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel readline-devel zlib-devel git rpmdevtools libffi libffi-devel fakeroot).

When I run sudo ~/.rbenv/shims/bundle exec omnibus build omnibus-toolchain I am met with the following error:

Error:

    configure: error: in `/gpfs/gpfs0/hpcstaff/drhey/omnibus-toolchain/local/omnibus/src/gtar/tar-1.28':
configure: error: you should not run configure as root (set FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 in environment to bypass this check)
See `config.log' for more details

I've tried to export the FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 variable as user running the aforementioned sudo omnibus command (AND as root) to no avail.

I apologize if this isn't the appropriate venue for this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[schisamo]

/cc @scotthain @jaymalasinha

[scotthain]

@drhey we don't recommend running the build as root. (I haven't had any success doing that personally). We also use bundler to ensure we have the latest omnibus and omnibus-software definitions, which may be required, depending on when you last updated. (https://github.com/chef/omnibus-toolchain/blob/master/Gemfile#L3-L4)

[drhey]

@scotthain Thanks! I'm currently cloning the omnibus-toolchain repo, and then following the doc for building the toolchain on Fedora/CentOS/RHEL. Are the steps contained therein still applicable? Or should I explicitly try doing something like gem install omnibus ?

As a data point, I was able to make progress doing the following sudo FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1 ~/.rbenv/shims/bundle exec omnibus build omnibus-toolchain (just to see if it would get past the snare; which it did). However, as you mentioned it's not good form to build as root.

[scotthain]

@drhey oh! It looks like those docs may be out of date :( To be honest, the easiest/quickest way (and the way we build it) is to use the omnibus cookbook https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/omnibus to set up your builder and simply override the toolchain_name attribute here https://github.com/chef-cookbooks/omnibus/blob/master/attributes/default.rb#L22 to angry-omnibus-toolchain This will set up the paths appropriately and you can use the tools in the (separately namespaced) toolchain to build the toolchain.

[drhey]

@scotthain Thanks! And no worries. I'm not a Ruby pro by any stretch of the imagination. I came to the omnibus stuff by way of Sensu who leverages the omnibus for their packaging. I'm becoming more acquainted with the intricacies of ruby on-the-fly. It appears that the last bit of info you gave me viz. the two gems (omnibus, and omnibus-software) tool chain are yielded some results. I am now failing the omnibus HealthCheck. It mentions licensing and unsafe dependencies. Any thoughts there? It does mention the packages that are experiencing these snares, e.g.

          [HealthCheck] E | 2017-03-20T14:06:14-04:00 | The following binaries have unsafe or unmet dependencies:
    --> /opt/omnibus-toolchain/embedded/bin/tar