Today I tried to install cucumber, but it failed in the install step with an error indicating it tried to use git I did not have installed. I installed git separately then tried again and it worked normally. Here is an excerpt from the failure: >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/work ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/work ... * Running compile phase for all ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4 >>> Install cucumber-1.1.4 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/image/ category dev-util * Running install phase for ruby18 ... /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/specification.rb:821: command not found: git ls-files sh: git: command not found sh: git: command not found * Running install phase for ruby19 ... -e:1:in `eval': No such file or directory - git ls-files (Errno::ENOENT) from (eval):55:in `block in <main>' from /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/specification.rb:1368:in `initialize' from (eval):5:in `new' from (eval):5:in `<main>' from -e:1:in `eval' from -e:1:in `<main>' * ERROR: dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4 failed (install phase): * Unable to generate gemspec file. * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_install * environment, line 4453: Called ruby-ng_src_install * environment, line 4123: Called _ruby_each_implementation 'each_ruby_install' * environment, line 475: Called _ruby_invoke_environment 'ruby19' 'each_ruby_install' * environment, line 527: Called each_ruby_install * environment, line 813: Called each_fakegem_install * environment, line 786: Called ruby_fakegem_install_gemspec * environment, line 4304: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * fi ) || die "Unable to generate gemspec file."; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4'`. !!! When you file a bug report, please include the following information: GENTOO_VM= CLASSPATH="" JAVA_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" JAVACFLAGS="" COMPILER="" and of course, the output of emerge --info * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/work/ruby19/cucumber-1.1.4' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/work/ruby19/cucumber-1.1.4' >>> Failed to emerge dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/temp/build.log' * Messages for package dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4: * ERROR: dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4 failed (install phase): * Unable to generate gemspec file. * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 85: Called src_install * environment, line 4453: Called ruby-ng_src_install * environment, line 4123: Called _ruby_each_implementation 'each_ruby_install' * environment, line 475: Called _ruby_invoke_environment 'ruby19' 'each_ruby_install' * environment, line 527: Called each_ruby_install * environment, line 813: Called each_fakegem_install * environment, line 786: Called ruby_fakegem_install_gemspec * environment, line 4304: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * fi ) || die "Unable to generate gemspec file."; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/temp/environment'. * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/work/ruby19/cucumber-1.1.4' * S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cucumber-1.1.4/work/ruby19/cucumber-1.1.4'
Yes, this happens because git is used to populate fields in the .gemspec file. I'll fix that when bumping cucumber to the latest version later this week.
This should be fixed with cucumber 1.2.1 which got added some time ago.
