[Bug]: Impossible to use Jekyll on FreeBSD

[duckinator]

Operating System

FreeBSD 13.2

Ruby Version

ruby 3.2.1 (2023-02-08 revision 31819e82c8) [x86_64-freebsd13.1]

Jekyll Version

jekyll 4.3.2

GitHub Pages Version

No response

Expected Behavior

I expected gem install jekyll to succeed.

Current Behavior

It fails to install.

The problem is basically:

1. jekyll relies on jekyll-sass-converter.
2. jekyll-sass-converter relies on sass-embedded.
3. sass-embedded uses https://github.com/sass/dart-sass.
4. dart-sass is implemented in Dart.
5. Dart does not support FreeBSD which means a stack based on dart-sass can never work on FreeBSD.

If there were somehow a way to install Jekyll without the SASS parts, I'd be okay with that — I just use plain CSS tossed in css/ anyway. But I couldn't find a way to do that.

I am unsure if or how this can be addressed, and am primarily opening this so the problem is at least written down somewhere. (So if Jekyll devs can't/don't want to address it for whatever reason, feel free to just say so and close the issue. ❤️)

Relevant log output

puppy@orthrus:~/jekyll-test$ gem install jekyll
Fetching terminal-table-3.0.2.gem
[...]
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing jekyll:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    current directory: /home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass
/usr/home/puppy/.rubies/ruby-3.2.1/bin/ruby -rrubygems /usr/home/puppy/.rubies/ruby-3.2.1/lib/ruby/gems/3.2.0/gems/rake-13.0.6/exe/rake RUBYARCHDIR\=/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/extensions/x86_64-freebsd-13/3.2.0-static/sass-embedded-1.69.1 RUBYLIBDIR\=/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/extensions/x86_64-freebsd-13/3.2.0-static/sass-embedded-1.69.1
gem install --force --install-dir /usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/ruby --no-document --ignore-dependencies --platform x86_64-freebsd-13 --version 1.69.1 sass-embedded
rake aborted!
NotImplementedError: dart-sass for x86_64-freebsd13.1 not available at https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases/tag/1.69.1
/usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/Rakefile:310:in `default_dart_sass'
/usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/Rakefile:27:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
/usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/Rakefile:27:in `fetch'
/usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/Rakefile:27:in `rescue in block in <top (required)>'
/usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/Rakefile:21:in `block in <top (required)>'

Caused by:

/usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/Rakefile:207:in `gem_install'
/usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/Rakefile:23:in `block in <top (required)>'
Tasks: TOP => default => install => cli.rb => dart-sass
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
rm -rf /usr/home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1/ext/sass/ruby

rake failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/gems/sass-embedded-1.69.1 for inspection.
Results logged to /home/puppy/.gem/ruby/3.2.1/extensions/x86_64-freebsd-13/3.2.0-static/sass-embedded-1.69.1/gem_make.out
puppy@orthrus:~/jekyll-test$

Steps to reproduce issue

1. Install FreeBSD
2. Install Ruby (either via pkg or by using chruby/ruby-install).
3. gem install jekyll

[fauno]

As a workaround, maybe you can install Jekyll 4.2 which doesn't depend on dart-sass? This is what we had to do until dart-sass was built for musl libc.

[duckinator]

@fauno based on your suggestion, I came up with another workaround: pin jekyll-sass-converter to 2.2.0 (the last non-Dart-based version).

Turns out Jekyll 4.3.2 depends on jekyll-sass-converter >= 2.0, <4.0 so that works fine.