As of writing, extensions for bundled gems are not installed without this patch. We have a guard for that in build.sh and you can remove this without extra care. --- a/common.mk +++ b/common.mk @@ -1375,7 +1375,6 @@ refresh-gems: update-bundled_gems prepare-gems prepare-gems: $(HAVE_BASERUBY:yes=update-gems) $(HAVE_BASERUBY:yes=extract-gems) -prepare-gems: $(DOT_WAIT) $(HAVE_BASERUBY:yes=outdate-bundled-gems) extract-gems: $(HAVE_BASERUBY:yes=update-gems) update-gems$(gnumake:yes=-sequential): PHONY