From: Michael Granger <ged@...>
Date: 2011-03-04T05:00:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Error "unrecognized option --protected" when running "gem install bluecloth"

On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:10 PM, rlh100 wrote:
> 
> I am running Fedora core 14 and trying to install bluecloth and am
> having problems.
> The first problem was with strcasecmp and I solved that my recompiling
> ruby to the latest 1.8.7 version, patch 334.
> 
> Now when I try to install bluecloth I get the error:
>     gem install bluecloth
>     Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>     ..................
> 
>     Successfully installed bluecloth-2.0.11
>     1 gem installed
>     Installing ri documentation for bluecloth-2.0.11...
> 
>     unrecognized option `--protected'

This happens because the gem has an invalid RDoc option in its rdoc_options. I'll have this fixed in the next release.

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Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Architect, Believer
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMUD.org/>