Question

I’ve been trying for a while now to install nokogiri-1.5.0.beta.2 and I keep running into an error. It’s been documented elsewhere but none of the solutions work.

sudo gem install nokogiri -v '1.5.0.beta.2'

It outputs

....
make
compiling xml_reader.c
compiling xml_attr.c
compiling xml_entity_reference.c
compiling xml_element_decl.c
compiling xml_xpath_context.c
xml_xpath_context.c: In function ‘xpath_generic_exception_handler’:
xml_xpath_context.c:154:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [xml_xpath_context.o] Error 1    make
compiling xml_reader.c
compiling xml_attr.c
compiling xml_entity_reference.c
compiling xml_element_decl.c
compiling xml_xpath_context.c
xml_xpath_context.c: In function ‘xpath_generic_exception_handler’:
xml_xpath_context.c:154:3: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [xml_xpath_context.o] Error 1

It’s been documented here and here, but no solutions work, anyone have any suggestions? I’d prefer not just updating to a newer version because I’m trying to get bundle install on someone else’s work to function.

Answer 1

Wasn’t able to resolve this problem but was able to bypass it by both updating ruby and/or installing a newer version of Nokogiri

gem install nokogiri