In message <30467.1130803518@gould.diplodocus.org>
	on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:05:18 -0800,
	Eric Gillespie <epg@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> This just needs 1.14 of rubyversion.mk pulled up.  Unfortunately,
> i'm sure that affects many other ruby packages.  I don't know who
> should look into this; i think it's better if someone familiar
> with the ruby packages does it.
Adding empty RUBY_DIST_SUBDIR might help.

RUBY_DIST_SUBDIR=

> If no one else does, i can try to find some time Saturday to
> build all Q3 ruby packages with this change merged in to see what
> happens.
I may take time to reflect recent Ruby's distfiles change to Q3 branch.

> Why do we need the separate ruby distdir anyway?
It was borrow from FreeBSD's ports which was the base of Ruby package
framework. AFAIR, its intention was:

  - avoid potential name conflicts; some distfiles begin from "ruby-"
    but others don't.
  - gather ruby related distfiles to one area.

Best regards.

-- 
Takahiro Kambe <taca@NetBSD.org>/<taca@back-street.net>