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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



  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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