I just installed ruby-1.8.7_p249-r2 and got this message: >>> Installing (1 of 1) dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p249-r2 !!! Warning: Could not set gem symlink It appears you do not have RubyGems installed for this profile. (For Ruby 1.8 you have to emerge >=dev-ruby/rubygems-1.2.0-r1) (I missed that rubygems version requirement(?) ) yet, emerging rubygems installs rubygems-1.3.7 without a "check" or "warning" or a problem, afaik. Does ruby-1.8 (still) require rubygems-1.2? Also, the phrasing of that warning message seems to imply that rubygems should be installed *before* ruby. That seems unlikely. --------- >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1 * rubygems-1.3.7.tgz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * CPV: dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1 * REPO: gentoo * USE: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib ruby_targets_ruby18 userland_GNU ... >>> Install rubygems-1.3.7-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/rubygems-1.3.7-r1/image/ category dev-ruby * Running install phase for ruby18 ... RubyGems 1.3.7 installed ���=== 1.3.7 / 2010-05-13 Reproducible: Always
RubyGems is not a hard dependency. If you want it, you need to install it after emerging Ruby. I've rephrased the message in eselect-ruby a little.
Fix is in eselect-ruby-20100603.
