From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-04-30T10:24:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Building Ruby extensions on OS X Tiger

In article <a2347a0405042917523d7e18c2@mail.gmail.com>,
Chad Fowler  <chadfowler@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 4/29/05, Richard Kilmer <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
>> Tony Arnold posted this on the Rails wiki:
>> _____
>> 
>> Mac OS X Tiger ships with Ruby 1.8.2 pre-installed. However,
>> rbconfig.rb needs to be edited if you want to build any gems. (from
>> Rich...not gems, native extensions)
>> 
>> Edit rbconfig.rb
>> 
>> sudo pico -w /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/rbconfig.rb
>> Now remove -arch i386 from the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables.
>> 
>> You will also need to change:
>> CONFIG["LIBRUBYARG_STATIC"] = "-l$(RUBY_SO_NAME)-static"
>> to:
>> CONFIG["LIBRUBYARG_STATIC"] = ""
>> _____
>> 
>> NOTE: This is only important if you are building native extensions
>> (not pure ruby ones)...but it does suck when you run into it...so its
>> worth fixing.
>> 
>> Wiki link: http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowtoInstallOnOSXTiger
>> 
>> Chad is working on a gem that you can install which fixes this too.
>> 
>> -rich
>> 
>> 
>
>sudo gem install fixrbconfig
>sudo fixrbconfig
>

You are indeed on the cutting edge ;-)

Phil