If one has moved /usr/local to a separate file system and symlink'ed it to it's original location (e.g.: /usr/ports - > /u1/usr-local ), then during install the commands: /bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6 cd /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/rubygems-3.0.6/ && /usr/bin/env DONT_USE_BUNDLER_FOR_GEMDEPS=true G EM_HOME=/usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.6 /usr/local/bin/ruby26 setup. rb --destdir=/usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage --no-regenerate-binstubs --no-ri --no-rdoc causes the creation of two trees in ./stage: ./stage/u1/usr-local/bin/gem26 ./stage/usr/local... [everything else] Only the script gem26 appears in the path ./u1/usr-local/.., but that's sufficient for the install to fail with: pkg-static: Unable to access file /usr/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage/usr/local/bin/gem26:No such fi le or directory My work-around was to "make" "mv u1/usr-local/bin/gem26 usr/local/bin/" "make install" I believe this is a bug in the ruby script 'setup,' but I have never learned ruby.
This still happens with ruby 2.7 & ruby-gems 3.0.8.
(In reply to parv from comment #1) I should have added the output from the attempt ... RubyGems installed the following executables: /src-build/ports-build/src-build/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage/root2/system-local/bin/gem27 Ruby Interactive (ri) documentation was installed. ri is kind of like man pages for Ruby libraries. You may access it like this: ri Classname ri Classname.class_method ri Classname#instance_method If you do not wish to install this documentation in the future, use the --no-document flag, or set it as the default in your ~/.gemrc file. See 'gem help env' for details. /bin/ln -sf gem27 /src-build/ports-build/src-build/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage/usr/local/bin/gem cd /src-build/ports-build/src-build/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage/usr/local/ && /usr/bin/find -ds lib/ruby/gems/2.7/doc/rubygems-3.0.8/ ! -type d >> /src-build/ports-build/src-build/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/.PLIST.mktmp ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man) ===> Installing for ruby27-gems-3.0.8 ===> Checking if ruby27-gems is already installed ===> Registering installation for ruby27-gems-3.0.8 pkg-static: Unable to access file /src-build/ports-build/src-build/ports/devel/ruby-gems/work/stage/usr/local/bin/gem27:No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop. make: stopped in /src-build/ports/devel/ruby-gems