On Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:54:50 GMT Jack wrote: > > On Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:11:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I wanted to try this package to create a small site for myself, but > > > > I'm > > > > > falling at the second hurdle (the first was setting package.env etc > > > > to pull > > > > > in ruby26 as well as the currently installed ruby30). > > > > > > Does anyone have experience with this builder? I'd like to find out > > > > where > > > > > I'm going wrong first. > > I just noticed something which may or may not help. The jekyllrb.com > docs page, under Prerequisites, says Ruby version 2.5.0 or higher. Why > does the ebuild insist on 2.5 (no longer even in the tree) or 2.6. If > I were going to install it, the first thing I'd probably do is make a > copy in my local overlay, and allow a newer version of ruby. I don't > think that is likely to help with your problem of not finding one thing > or another, but who knows? (A note lower down on that page says that > using ruby 3.0.0 or higher add a requirement for webrick, but that is > available in portage, and could be handled in the ebuild.
I can't see any future in trying to get Jekyll going on Gentoo, so I'm trying another tack: Kubuntu. Now I'm falling foul of VirtualBox, in particular its guest additions, which won't compile. Bug 814197 refers. So maybe it's time to try dual-boot. -- Regards, Peter.
