From: Corey <corey_s@...>
Date: 2004-11-08T11:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ri on gentoo

On Sunday 07 November 2004 07:03 pm, Jason Sweat wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:24:05 +0900, Corey <corey_s@qwest.net> wrote:
<snip>
> > To the other gentoo users reading this thread:  I'll go ahead and file
> > a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org, and will refer to this thread/post.
<snip>
> Personally, I just altered the dev-lang/ruby ebuild to include the
> --enable-install-doc option, and this let ri work just fine after
> that.  I would lobby to have that either hard coded always on, or
> toggled via a USE option in the ruby portage script.
>

Ok - well, there was a bug already opened, and apparently there is still 
some issue or another for some folks - even when using the suggested
fix as you detailed above. 

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62003

At any rate, I'm sure this'll get resolved pretty soon, I went ahead and
added a comment which points to this thread via the ruby-lang archive.
( which, unfortunately, seems a little slow in propagating the most
recent posts. )


Beers,

Corey

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