From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QD4DU-0000fJ-40 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:27:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AEE11C00B; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C661C00B for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:25:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so266432wwi.4 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:25:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=ecuUYGqBuQZf1iukakLt7ynEBXzXoxO3wrXt6WNNXos=; b=M50320EI7XYbTPccX9b6adpxku7st6Wg4JEv7kd17cgW/hS1eCCR1rfcfSMvgH9TIY d8GG4Gu5f3g4G2sAIO8E1JWP7cUc+Z4hVJB81uFE8CohFLnulXaQqp92sEq42uCH0Sm9 yJqNPmVkNgk8HJYJn+MXpIAuuZdywtA847tVE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=lxnz7mUkt7usDfZuLUgpG0vd+3AmAY5Xi/Ody5u7wtYdF/7aEjCS7i/Y92u9utKz/X 1rbCm1yKXdREJ1rqaMsdgHnuSP0Cx7IRiKvnb1vCw+2UDfEfcgWy2jMfz7AxAbDyvU7j wYU+ZANW6PVErqW2JyWdj4uVEi+RQ3djTG9vA= Received: by 10.216.241.197 with SMTP id g47mr458686wer.110.1303431957111; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-19-231.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.19.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d59sm1187803wed.21.2011.04.21.17.25.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:25:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing ffi gem Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:25:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-ck; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110421235713.GA18633@genestate.com> In-Reply-To: <20110421235713.GA18633@genestate.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104220225.24376.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 6e023f9dcc27f53dd050b07c8962e91d 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