From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-11-05T02:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT - debian/ruby] [WAS] Re: rails: gem install rails is bombing

Jason Sweat wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:12:57 +0900, Tobias Luetke
> <tobias.luetke@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Consider me the thrid, gentoo would be the right choice.
> 
> 
> I dearly love Gentoo as a distro, but I did have one issue with the
> ebuild scripts for ruby.  I had to manually add the 
> --enable-install-doc option to the default portage ebuild script for
> ruby-1.8.2_pre2 in order to get ri to work correctly.  I suggested to
> the maintainer of the portage script to add a "doc" USE flag to
> control this.
> 
> Did anyone else have the same issue I did?  Is there a more clever way
> around this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jason

Jason,

It looks like this works now--I have the doc USE flag set, and it went 
and built all the ri stuff (and I mean ALL the ri stuff).

However...don't know if this is a gentoo problem or a Jamis problem, but 
ri is now broken for me. If I do (for example) "ri Array", I only get a 
handful of methods shown to me (abbrev, is_complex_yaml?, pretty_print, 
pretty_print_cycle, quote, to_yaml, to_yaml_type). Anyone else seen 
this? Is there a way to fix this so I can use ri again? Please?

- Jamis

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