From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T07:55:43+09:00
Subject: Re: How to install something on MacOS X?

On 11/9/05, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Timothy Hunter wrote:
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> > Typically, Ruby extensions that are compiled (as opposed to pure-
> > Ruby extensions) will require access to the Ruby header files. You
> > don't get these with just the pre-installed Ruby. You'll have to
> > download and install Ruby yourself.
>
> Wrong.
>
> $ locate ruby.h | grep '/usr/lib'
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/ruby.h

Yes, also: they get installed with the dev tools, as someone suggested earlier.

> Tiger's Ruby is slightly broken, there's a gem to fix it, but I don't
> recall its name.

install rubygems, then:

  sudo gem install fixrbconfig; sudo fixrbconfig

cheers,
Mark

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