Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:54:50 GMT Jack wrote:
> > On Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:11:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > > 
> > > I wanted to try this package to create a small site for myself, but
> > 
> > I'm
> > 
> > > falling at the second hurdle (the first was setting package.env etc
> > 
> > to pull
> > 
> > > in ruby26 as well as the currently installed ruby30).
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have experience with this builder? I'd like to find out
> > 
> > where
> > 
> > > I'm going wrong first.
> 
> I just noticed something which may or may not help.  The jekyllrb.com
> docs page, under Prerequisites, says Ruby version 2.5.0 or higher.  Why
> does the ebuild insist on 2.5 (no longer even in the tree) or 2.6.  If
> I were going to install it, the first thing I'd probably do is make a
> copy in my local overlay, and allow a newer version of ruby.  I don't
> think that is likely to help with your problem of not finding one thing
> or another, but who knows?  (A note lower down on that page says that
> using ruby 3.0.0 or higher add a requirement for webrick, but that is
> available in portage, and could be handled in the ebuild.

I can't see any future in trying to get Jekyll going on Gentoo, so I'm trying 
another tack: Kubuntu. Now I'm falling foul of VirtualBox, in particular its 
guest additions, which won't compile. Bug 814197 refers.

So maybe it's time to try dual-boot.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.