From: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: installing ffi gem
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 06:52:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5e788-m9t.ln1@graaff.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110421235713.GA18633@genestate.com
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:57:13 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote:
> I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck
> installing the ffi gem for ruby.
>
> 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.
That is correct, we recommend to use our native Gentoo packages when
present.
If you have a problem with a package, then please file a bug report at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/ ffi-0.6.3-r1 should be usable.
> 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.
Yes, you are trying to install a version of the ffi gem that is not
compatible with your ruby version. ffi-0.6.3 is the latest version that
reliably works with ruby 1.8. The ffi-1.x series never worked reliably
with ruby 1.8, and the latest version have officially removed support for
it and only work with ruby 1.9. This is also the reason that ffi-0.6.3 is
the latest version in the tree.
Kind regards,
Hans
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-22 5:07 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
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 [this message]
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