From: Stephen Bannasch <stephen.bannasch@...>
Date: 2007-12-11T11:25:23+09:00
Subject: Re: OSX patches

At 5:47 AM +0900 10/25/07, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>On 10/24/07, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> At Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:13:40 +0900,
>> Laurent Sansonetti wrote in [ruby-core:12895]:
>> > We internally have a set of patches that we apply to the Ruby 1.8
>> > source tree to build the version of Ruby that ships with Mac OS X.
>> > Some of them were written for Leopard (10.5, the upcoming version of
>> > Mac OS X that will be released in a few days), others were written for
>> > previous versions.
>>
>> AvailabilityMacros.h has been available on older versions?
>> Even on pre-OS X, though I guess ruby can't compile on there
>> anymore, is it OK?
>
>AvailabilityMacros.h is available since 10.2. It doesn't exist on
>10.0, 10.1 (which was a quick bugfix release for 10.0), or pre-OSX
>systems. 10.0 and 10.1 are actually obsolete environments, and I'm not
>even sure that ruby can build or run on pre-OSX systems (Fujimoto
>Hisakuni wrote some support I think, but it may not be complete).
>
>> Also, is it the Apple's official way to check the version?
>
>Yes it is.

I'd like to see these patches applied.

Has anybody found any problems with them?