From: Dave Baldwin Date: 2005-11-23T02:25:37+09:00 Subject: Re: fixrbconfig broken in 10.4.3 On 22 Nov 2005, at 16:52, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 11/22/05, Dave Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 22 Nov 2005, at 13:50, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> >>> On 11/21/05, Rawn027 wrote: >>>> I get an error saying that ruby.h cannot be found please install >>>> dev >>>> tools but i have dev tools installed and ruby.h is there when i use >>>> locate. I have no idea how to fix this, did 10.4.3 fix the problems >>>> previously there with 10.4's broken ruby? Can I compile my own and >>>> have >>>> it work? Where can I go from here because I was told to use the >>>> ruby >>>> howto on technoblog. >>> >>> Hello >>> >>> You can install fink, and use the fink package of ruby. Since ruby >>> does need some tweaking to build on OS X you should probably try >>> installing some package management system (fink, darwinports, >>> gentoo,..) that provides a collection of patches that makes ruby >>> work >>> (more or less) seamlessly on OS X. >>> >>> hth >>> >>> Michal >> >> Ruby is trivial to install on OS X without using fink and friends. > > What version did you use? dave 1% which ruby /usr/local/bin/ruby dave 2% ruby -v ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [powerpc-darwin8.2.2] dave 3% OS X 10.4.3, build 8F46 I haven't noticed any problems. Dave. > 1.8.3 uses char ** environ which is not present on OS X (there is some > function instead). > Extensions are by default linked with -undefined suppress, which > happily installs extensions for which there are no suitable libaries > on the system. > It installs binary extensions into arch directory that includes the > darwin major and minor version number in tits name. At least the minor > is going to change as you install updates which will make the > extensions inacessible when you update the interpreter as well. > >> >> Assuming you have downloaded it already, navigate to the folder >> within a terminal window. >> Type (as per the readme) >> >> ./configure >> make >> make test >> sudo make install > > If this worked it would be nice :) > > But it does not on 10.3.9, and it reportedly fails on 10.4. > > Thanks > > Michal > > > -- > Support the freedom of music! > Maybe it's a weird genre .. but weird is *not* illegal. > Maybe next time they will send a special forces commando > to your picnic .. because they think you are weird. > www.music-versus-guns.org http://en.policejnistat.cz