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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:57:13 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: |
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> I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck |
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> installing the ffi gem for ruby. |
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> According to a bug I found (can't find it now I'm afraid) the gentoo |
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> devs do not support installing gems via the gem command and directed the |
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> user to use the dev-ruby/ffi package. Unfortnately, that package is |
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> absolutely ancient and unusable. |
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That is correct, we recommend to use our native Gentoo packages when |
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present. |
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If you have a problem with a package, then please file a bug report at |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/ ffi-0.6.3-r1 should be usable. |
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> Anyway, I've got the ffi library install from portage, but when I try to |
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> `gem install ffi`, I get the output seen in the attachement. |
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Yes, you are trying to install a version of the ffi gem that is not |
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compatible with your ruby version. ffi-0.6.3 is the latest version that |
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reliably works with ruby 1.8. The ffi-1.x series never worked reliably |
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with ruby 1.8, and the latest version have officially removed support for |
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it and only work with ruby 1.9. This is also the reason that ffi-0.6.3 is |
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the latest version in the tree. |
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Kind regards, |
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Hans |
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