Installation fails with space in XCode path

[mycarrysun]

Describe the bug

When XCode has a space in the file path (mine was /Applications/Xcode 11.4.1.app) the following command fails during installation:

/Applications/Xcode 11.4.1.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
make: /Applications/Xcode: No such file or directory

To Reproduce
This happens on bundle install when you have a space in the filename for Xcode on MacOS

Expected behavior

That nokogiri is installed successfully

Environment
MacOS Catalina 10.15.6
Ruby 2.6.5
Nokogiri 1.10.1

Solution?
I would imagine the solution to this is to surround the path in quotes when running the make command. If someone could point me in the direction of the install script I can put up a PR to fix.

[flavorjones]

@mycarrysun Thanks for asking this question, and sorry you're having trouble.

Without more information from you, I can't be absolutely sure, but I believe the issue you're having is due to a commonly-reported issue with libxml2. See also #1407, #1427, #1289, #1175, and #1891.

I've created #2055 to document this problem. In the meantime, you may want to try to compile and link against your system libraries, or else re-install xcode into a directory without spaces.

Sorry I can't be of more help here.

[flavorjones]

Long-term we hope to be able to provide pre-compiled libxml2 for popular platforms. See #1983 for some indication of where we're at on that (after Linux we'll tackle OSX).