From: I did not <NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T05:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Installation from source (unclear instructions)

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:29:00 +0900, Ben Giddings wrote:

> I did not wrote:
>> basil ruby-1.8.2 $ emerge -p ruby
>> 
>> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>> 
>> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>> [ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2_pre2
>> 
>> basil ruby-1.8.2 $ ri -v
>> ri: beta1 (1.2.2.8 2004/04/02)
>> 
>> 
>> I thought ri had been included in the ruby distribution.
>> Maybe you should remove your ri package and possibly emerge ruby again?
> 
> root@nightcrawler# qpkg -l ruby |grep '/bin/'
> /usr/bin/ruby18
> /usr/bin/erb18
> /usr/bin/irb18
> /usr/bin/rdoc18
> /usr/bin/ri18
> /usr/bin/testrb18
> 
> It did seem to create the documentation when I added the 'doc' USE flag, 
> but didn't install any 'ri' that I can see.
> 
> But even if I can get it to work on Gentoo, I'm curious about how it 
> should work when working from source.

ls -ls /usr/bin/ri
0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 4 Sep  1 12:03 /usr/bin/ri -> ri18

IIRC, the link is created by ruby-config which allows ruby16, ruby18 and
ruby19 to be installed on the same box.

Can you try to 
# emerge ruby-config and run 
# ruby-config ruby18

That should solve your problem.

Hth