355873 – dev-lang/ruby-1.9.2: /etc/gemrc ignored due to etc.so issue

Bug 355873 - dev-lang/ruby-1.9.2: /etc/gemrc ignored due to etc.so issue

Summary: dev-lang/ruby-1.9.2: /etc/gemrc ignored due to etc.so issue

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2011-02-21 17:37 UTC by Sven Schwyn (svoop)
Modified:	2011-02-21 17:59 UTC (History)
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Description Sven Schwyn (svoop) 2011-02-21 17:37:23 UTC

The global config file for the gem command is /etc/gemrc. The directory /etc is read from etc.so in /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/config_file.rb (line 51):

system_config_path =
  begin
    require 'etc.so'
    Etc.sysconfdir
  rescue LoadError
    '/etc'
  end

For some reason, ruby19's Etc.sysconfdir returns "$(DESTDIR)/etc" instead of the correct path "/etc" (as does ruby18). As a consequence, the gemrc file is expected in "$(DESTDIR)/etc/gemrc" and thus not found.

An easy way to check whether the path is correct:

# eselect-ruby set ruby19
# irb
> Gem::ConfigFile::SYSTEM_WIDE_CONFIG_FILE   # => "$(DESTDIR)/etc/gemrc"


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Sven Schwyn (svoop) 2011-02-21 17:45:43 UTC

The problem seems not to be platform dependant, at least it occurs at least on both x86_64 (Gentoo) and i386 (32bit Gentoo Prefix on Intel Mac).

Comment 2 Sven Schwyn (svoop) 2011-02-21 17:59:26 UTC

This is a bug upstream which has been fixed, a version bump will take care of it.

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3832