Some combination of ruby-1.9 and rake-0.8.4 causes the Alexandria install to fail. I've filed a bug report upstream at http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25678&group_id=205&atid=863 since the issue is still present in their SVN HEAD.
Created attachment 189434 [details, diff] Patch to allow alexandria-0.6.4.1 to install
I believe this is also an issue for Alexandria 0.6.5
Will take over Alexandria as main maintainer, now. This patch has made it upstream, but they are sure that there are other incompatabilities, which need to get addressed. So the question is to leave this bug open after the 0.6.6 release, which will fix this issue, or close it. John, as you seem to be a user maintainer, welcome for some collaboration.
Alexandria 0.6.6 is out for a long time now. Is this bug still valid ?
install passed with alexandria-0.6.6-r2 and ruby-1.9.3_rc1, but failed to start with the following error. /usr/bin/alexandria:3: warning: variable $KCODE is no longer effective; ignored /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': iconv will be deprecated in the future, use String#encode instead . /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/gettext-2.1.0/lib/gettext/runtime/locale_path.rb:20: Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config. /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/alexandria/about.rb:54: invalid multibyte c har (US-ASCII) (SyntaxError) /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/alexandria/about.rb:54: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/alexandria/about.rb:54: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ']' 'Adrián Chaves Fernández <adriyeti... ^ from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /usr/lib64/ruby/1.9.1/alexandria.rb:21:in `<top (required)>' from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require' from /usr/bin/alexandria:11:in `<main>'
Created attachment 293173 [details, diff] Proposal patch for alexandria-0.6.6-r2.ebuild. Fix installation that doesn't respect multiple ruby implementations.
Created attachment 293175 [details, diff] a small patch for ruby-gtk2 version checking
Created attachment 296175 [details, diff] A patch for alexandria-0.6.7.ebuild alexandria-0.6.7.ebuild now in the tree, but still have a issue discused in here. Please fix the ebuild. Regards.
(In reply to comment #8) > Created attachment 296175 [details, diff] [details, diff] > A patch for alexandria-0.6.7.ebuild > > alexandria-0.6.7.ebuild now in the tree, but still have a issue discused in > here. > Please fix the ebuild. > Regards. Done...is the patch for Alexandria code itself not needed anymore?