Thrift Gem 0.8.0 with Mavericks 10.9

Written by Ho Man Apr 25, 2014 1 minute read

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There seems to be some issue with building the thrift gem 0.8.0 on Mavericks. Taken from this discussion: Jira Issue

The issue is that in Mavericks, strlcpy is now defined as a macro if you install the SDK. This conflicts with the duplicate declaration of strlcpy as a function in strlcpy.h. The fix should be simple: don’t re-declare the strlcpy prototype in strlcpy.h. Just remove that line, since is guaranteed to have declared strlcpy declared already–this is tested for already in lib/rb/ext/extconf.rb via the call to have_func(“strlcpy”, “string.h”).

The Solution

As suggested as well from that thread, the issue seems to be pretty easily solvable by either of these two methods:

gem install thrift -v '0.8.0' -- --with-cppflags='-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0'

bundle config build.thrift --with-cppflags='-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=0'

The only difference is that the first one will work one off and the second method should work for future builds just for thrift if you’re using bundler.