Building QT and capybara-webkit has always been at best an exercise in yak shaving and at worst an exercise in wizardry, prayer, and laptop damage. For the most part I have been free from problems with it for a while, but a new problem cropped up the most recent time I upgraded my Ruby version and bundled a project that included it:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing capybara-webkit:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
current directory: /Users/josh/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/capybara-webkit-1.10.1
/Users/josh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0/bin/ruby -r ./siteconf20160422-60750-c7owvo.rb extconf.rb
QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced.
Error processing project file: /Users/josh/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/capybara-webkit-1.10.1/webkit_server.pro
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary
libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may
need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/Users/josh/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.3.0/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
--with-gl-dir
--without-gl-dir
--with-gl-include
--without-gl-include=${gl-dir}/include
--with-gl-lib
--without-gl-lib=${gl-dir}/lib
--with-zlib-dir
--without-zlib-dir
--with-zlib-include
--without-zlib-include=${zlib-dir}/include
--with-zlib-lib
--without-zlib-lib=${zlib-dir}/lib
Command 'qmake LIBS\ \+\=\ -L/usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib\ -L/usr/local/opt/readline/lib\ -L/usr/local/opt/libksba/lib\ -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib' failed
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/josh/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/gems/capybara-webkit-1.10.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /Users/josh/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.3.0/extensions/x86_64-darwin-15/2.3.0/capybara-webkit-1.10.1/gem_make.out
The error is caused by adding
Anaconda to your PATH
, which has its
own qmake
. Comment out this
line in your ~/.bash_profile
:
And then open a new terminal window and re-bundle. Having found next to no clues on this Googling around, I hope this helps the next person suffering from the same issue.