From: Brian Mitchell <binary42@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T16:01:23+09:00
Subject: Re: How to install something on MacOS X?

On 11/9/05, Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >> 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).

They somehow messed up the endianess of the pack and unpack
operations. They are completely backwards. I wondered if this had
anything to do with their intel development work? They have not fixed
it and show no sign of it ever being fixed during Tiger's life cycle.

I _highly_ recommend you install from source yourself.

Brian.