From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing ffi gem
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:25:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104220225.24376.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110421235713.GA18633@genestate.com>
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:57 on Friday 22 April 2011, Matt Harrison
did opine thusly:
> I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck
> installing the ffi gem for ruby.
The gentoo dev most active with ruby gems is flameeyes. He's a prolific
blogger and documents everything he is going through in full painful detail
here:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu
The most current info on how to deal with gems on gentoo will be found there
IMHO
>
> According to a bug I found (can't find it now I'm afraid) the gentoo devs
> do not support installing gems via the gem command and directed the user
> to use the dev-ruby/ffi package. Unfortnately, that package is absolutely
> ancient and unusable.
>
> Anyway, I've got the ffi library install from portage, but when I try to
> `gem install ffi`, I get the output seen in the attachement.
>
> The same gem installs just fine on an ubuntu box, but...well it's ubuntu
> and I don't want to use that (besides it's just a VM).
>
> I'd really like to get this fixed so I can get started on a new project.
>
> Grateful for any help
>
> Matt
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-22 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-21 23:57 [gentoo-user] installing ffi gem Matt Harrison
2011-04-22 0:25 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-04-22 0:33 ` kashani
2011-04-22 0:39 ` Matt Harrison
2011-04-22 3:54 ` skiarxon
2011-04-22 4:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Hans de Graaff
2011-04-22 6:12 ` kashani
2011-04-22 17:36 ` Hans de Graaff
2011-04-22 4:52 ` Hans de Graaff
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