I had this problem as well. I don't know why scl was failing to enable the environment, but I was able to get it to load with source /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/enable.
I had this problem as well. I don't know why scl was failing to enable the environment, but I was able to get it to load with source /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/enable.
It is because of your settings in .bashrc and/or .bash_profile. scl appends its path to gcc7 before starting your new bash shell, but the path to gcc is default to the old gcc4 again because your .bashrc appends /usr/bin to the path when starting the new bash, and it supersedes the scl settings. The solution is to use the "enable" script directly. That way no further path settings annoy you.
A work-around that I found is to set gnome-terminal to run
bash -c "$HOME/.bashrc; exec zsh"
as a custom command in place of the default shell, which is equivalent to opening a terminal emulator with
gnome-terminal -- bash -c "$HOME/.bashrc; exec zsh"
adapted from here.
It seems you could also use:
source /opt/rh/devtoolset-8/enable
Tested on RHEL7.6 for package rh-php73, it worked:
source /opt/rh/rh-php73/enable
Found the hint here
In your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile Simply source the "enable" script provided with the devtoolset. For example, with the Devtoolset 2, the command is:
source /opt/rh/devtoolset-2/enable
or
source scl_source enable devtoolset-2
Lot more efficient: no forkbomb, no tricky shell
An alternative of source /opt/rh/devtoolset-4/enable is
source scl_source enable devtoolset-4
The above shell script scl_source is more elegant than using a hard coded path (may be different on another machine). However scl_source does less because /opt/rh/devtoolset-4/enable uses scl_source and other stuff.
To use scl_source you may have to upgrade package scl-utils
yum update scl-utils # old scl-utils versions miss scl_source
Quick copy-paste
echo 'source scl_source enable devtoolset-4' >> ~/.bashrc
# Do not forget to change the version ↑
Source code for curious people
An example of scl_source source code:
https://gist.github.com/bkabrda/6435016
The scl_source installed on my Red Hat 7.1
#!/bin/bash
_scl_source_help="Usage: source scl_source <action> [<collection> ...]
Don't use this script outside of SCL scriptlets!
Options:
-h, --help display this help and exit"
if [ $# -eq 0 -o $1 = "-h" -o $1 = "--help" ]; then
echo "$_scl_source_help"
return 0
fi
if [ -z "$_recursion" ]; then
_recursion="false"
fi
if [ -z "$_scl_scriptlet_name" ]; then
# The only allowed action in the case of recursion is the same
# as was the original
_scl_scriptlet_name=$1
fi
shift 1
if [ -z "$_scl_dir" ]; then
# No need to re-define the directory twice
_scl_dir=/etc/scl/conf
if [ ! -e $_scl_dir ]; then
_scl_dir=/etc/scl/prefixes
fi
fi
for arg in "$@"; do
_scl_prefix_file=$_scl_dir/$arg
_scl_prefix=`cat $_scl_prefix_file 2> /dev/null`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Can't read $_scl_prefix_file, $arg is probably not installed."
return 1
fi
# First check if the collection is already in the list
# of collections to be enabled
for scl in ${_scls[@]}; do
if [ 
scl ]; then
continue 2
fi
done
# Now check if the collection isn't already enabled
/usr/bin/scl_enabled $arg > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
_scls+=($arg)
_scl_prefixes+=($_scl_prefix)
fi;
done
if [ $_recursion == "false" ]; then
_i=0
_recursion="true"
while [ 
{#_scls[@]} ]; do
_scl_scriptlet_path="${_scl_prefixes[$_i]}/${_scls[$_i]}/${_scl_scriptlet_name}"
source "$_scl_scriptlet_path"
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Can't source $_scl_scriptlet_name, skipping."
else
export X_SCLS="${_scls[$_i]} $X_SCLS"
fi;
_i=
_i+1))
done
_scls=()
_scl_prefixes=()
_scl_scriptlet_name=""
_recursion="false"
fi
To expand on @user2915097's answer here is a working example using devtoolset-7 and rh-python36 instead of devtoolset-1.1
FROM centos:7
# Default version of GCC and Python
RUN gcc --version && python --version
# Install some developer style software collections with intent to
# use newer version of GCC and Python than the OS provided
RUN yum install -y centos-release-scl && yum install -y devtoolset-7 rh-python36
# Yum installed packages but the default OS-provided version is still used.
RUN gcc --version && python --version
# Okay, change our shell to specifically use our software collections.
# (default was SHELL [ "/bin/sh", "-c" ])
# https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#shell
#
# See also `scl` man page for enabling multiple packages if desired:
# https://linux.die.net/man/1/scl
SHELL [ "/usr/bin/scl", "enable", "devtoolset-7", "rh-python36" ]
# Switching to a different shell has brought the new versions into scope.
RUN gcc --version && python --version
Among the directives of the Dockerfile, you have SHELL
https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#shell
from this doc
The SHELL instruction can also be used on Linux should an alternate shell be required such as zsh, csh, tcsh and others.
According to the comments and my own experience with Docker, each RUN line is run in a separate shell environment, so when you source an environment in one RUN line, that environment is not available to other RUN commands.
Using the line RUN source scl_source enable devtoolset-7 && cd /home/admin/${APP_NAME}/nginx-base/cplusplus && make version && make instead of your previous RUN command makes sure the current environment is setup for the make command.
As a workaround:
SHELL ["sh", "-c", "source scl_source enable $(scl -l) && sh -c \"$0\" \"$@\""]
it replaces the shell for all following RUN.
using scl enable actually opens a new shell inside your current one, which is quite unclean, especially if done from a login script.
You should place, instead, in your ~/.bash_profile:
source /opt/rh/rh-nginx18/enable
or:
source scl_source enable rh-nginx18
The latter is more "elegant" as it is independent from the actual installation path.
This has the effect of loading the environment in your current shell.
Redhat proposes placing a file in /etc/profile.d, i.e. for python:
$ cat /etc/profile.d/enablepython33.sh
#!/bin/bash
source scl_source enable python33
As this works for the devtools under centos for me you could try this.