Building ruby container in GitLab is failing

[phracek]

Container platform

Podman/Docker

Version

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OS version of the container image

RHEL 8, RHEL 9

Bugzilla, Jira

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Description

During the building container in GitLab CI we get this error:

Installing activemodel 6.1.7.6
Fetching activerecord 6.1.7.6
Installing activerecord 6.1.7.6
Fetching sinatra-activerecord 2.0.22
Installing sinatra-activerecord 2.0.22
Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

current directory:
/opt/app-root/src/bundle/ruby/3.0.0/gems/mysql2-0.5.3/ext/mysql2
/usr/bin/ruby -I /usr/share/rubygems -r ./siteconf20231205-6-q77tbr.rb
extconf.rb
checking for rb_absint_size()... *** 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
	--without-opt-dir
	--with-opt-include
	--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
	--with-opt-lib
	--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib64
	--with-make-prog
	--without-make-prog
	--srcdir=.
	--curdir
	--ruby=/usr/bin/$(RUBY_BASE_NAME)
/usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:471:in `try_do': The compiler failed to generate an
executable file. (RuntimeError)
You have to install development tools first.
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:564:in `try_link0'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:582:in `try_link'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:794:in `try_func'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:1083:in `block in have_func'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:971:in `block in checking_for'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:361:in `block (2 levels) in postpone'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:331:in `open'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:361:in `block in postpone'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:331:in `open'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:357:in `postpone'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:970:in `checking_for'
	from /usr/share/ruby/mkmf.rb:1082:in `have_func'
	from extconf.rb:25:in `<main>'

To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can
be found here:

/opt/app-root/src/bundle/ruby/3.0.0/extensions/x86_64-linux/3.0.0/mysql2-0.5.3/mkmf.log

extconf failed, exit code 1

The log is here: http://artifacts.osci.redhat.com/testing-farm/81f1cc41-2f10-44dd-bd4e-2dabd6adb039/

Reproducer

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