pip install: metadata-generation-failed in docker - docker

Question

This is my Dockerfile:
FROM alpine:3.14
# Install python/pip
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
RUN apk add --update --no-cache python3 && ln -sf python3 /usr/bin/python
RUN python3 -m ensurepip
RUN pip3 install --no-cache --upgrade pip setuptools
RUN apk add python3-dev # for python3.x installs
RUN apk add musl-dev
RUN apk add gcc
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/tap-stashstock
RUN mkdir -p /usr/singer
WORKDIR /usr/src/tap-stashstock
ADD . /usr/src/tap-stashstock
ADD singer /usr/singer
RUN pip3 install --upgrade .
This works and then I run docker run -it stashstock-to-bigquery pip3 install target-bigquery which results in this error
Collecting grpcio<2.0dev,>=1.38.1
Downloading grpcio-1.44.0.tar.gz (21.4 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 21.4/21.4 MB 3.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [12 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
File "/tmp/pip-install-4wuwnk4b/grpcio_429c1ed72b4244a0a71ac7e9f1ec81c6/setup.py", line 256, in <module>
if check_linker_need_libatomic():
File "/tmp/pip-install-4wuwnk4b/grpcio_429c1ed72b4244a0a71ac7e9f1ec81c6/setup.py", line 203, in check_linker_need_libatomic
cpp_test = subprocess.Popen([cxx, '-x', 'c++', '-std=c++11', '-'],
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1821, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c++'
[end of output]
note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
What am I missing from my Dockerfile?

Answer 1

This error may for not having a C/C++ compiler.
Try install gcc and build-essensial before pip installation.
Please follow the steps given in
https://github.com/grpc/issues/24556