Apparently, though unproven, at 01:57 on Friday 22 April 2011, Matt Harrison did opine thusly:
> I've just tried setting up a new development machine and I'm stuck > installing the ffi gem for ruby. The gentoo dev most active with ruby gems is flameeyes. He's a prolific blogger and documents everything he is going through in full painful detail here: http://blog.flameeyes.eu The most current info on how to deal with gems on gentoo will be found there IMHO > > According to a bug I found (can't find it now I'm afraid) the gentoo devs > do not support installing gems via the gem command and directed the user > to use the dev-ruby/ffi package. Unfortnately, that package is absolutely > ancient and unusable. > > Anyway, I've got the ffi library install from portage, but when I try to > `gem install ffi`, I get the output seen in the attachement. > > The same gem installs just fine on an ubuntu box, but...well it's ubuntu > and I don't want to use that (besides it's just a VM). > > I'd really like to get this fixed so I can get started on a new project. > > Grateful for any help > > Matt -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
