From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T09:57:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to install something on MacOS X?


>> 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

Unfortunately, this isn't a complete solution to Tiger's Ruby  
problem.  It does fix readline and lets you install and use Rails  
successfully (which was the problem which inspired the fix), but it  
doesn't solve problems with Array#pack (I think it was pack - feel  
free to offer corrections).  Anecdotally: ruby-wordnet's convertdb.rb  
script will create a segmentation fault on both the 'fixed' and  
unfixed systems.  (the script convert's Wordnet's database to a  
slightly different format).

This makes me believe that in order to completely fix that problem,  
you will need to roll your own, or install via some sort of package.

matthew smillie.