Chef-solo install - gecode compile error

Question

Im trying to install chef-solo on CentOS 6.3 x64 and when I run:

sudo chef-solo -c /etc/chef/solo.rb -j ~/chef.json -r http://s3.amazonaws.com/chef-solo/bootstrap-latest.tar.gz

I'm getting this output:

g++ -I. -ffast-math -fno-strict-aliasing -O3 -fvisibility=hidden -ggdb -pipe -Wall -Wextra -fPIC -pthread -DNDEBUG   \
    -c -o gecode/int/extensional.o  gecode/int/extensional.cpp
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/chef-solo/gecode-3.5.0'
STDERR: {standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:13822: Warning: end of file not at end of a line; newline inserted
{standard input}:14946: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.'
{standard input}:14946: Error: open CFI at the end of file; missing .cfi_endproc directive
g++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)
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make[1]: *** [gecode/int/extensional.o] Error 1
make: *** [compilelib] Error 2
---- End output of "bash"  "/tmp/chef-script20120904-19809-1ofhwoq" ----
Ran "bash"  "/tmp/chef-script20120904-19809-1ofhwoq" returned 2

I can install gecode from the RBEL6 repo without any problems but the cookbook attempts to install from source. I found this pull request on github which attempts to install from the RBEL repo but I got an error saying that the repository metadata couldn't be found. Anyone know what to do?

Answer 1

Since I have been searching for an answer to this, my findings were rather ... unsurprising.

I simply ran out of memory. I had to compile my files on another system with the same OS (copied over /tmp/chef-solo/gecode-3.5.0 to the box and just ran make) and synced the resulting folder back to run make install

Once the library is found the compile step is skipped and you should be good to continue.