From: Aaron Kulbe <akulbe@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T15:18:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems building binaries on OS X 10.4

On 2/6/06, Eric Promislow <eric.promislow@gmail.com> wrote:> This is with the Ruby that ships with 10.4 (Tiger).  We haven't tried> building our> own Ruby on this platform yet.>> The problem is that the .h header files are in> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0,> while the library files are bundles in> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0>> which makes sense.  But the extfile build system seems to look in> powerpc-darwin8.0, but not universal...  -- the RUBY_PLATFORM> var is set to "powerpc-darwin8.0".>> Should we build our own Ruby?  Is there a way to configure our build> system to use /usr/bin/ruby?  What if we want to build and use a fat> ruby?>
during the ./configure stage, specify --prefix=/usr and it willinstall in /usr/bin/ruby and replace the stock ruby.
i.e.
./configure --prefix=/usrmakesudo make install
done.
aaronk@Mini % which ruby                                                                                                                                                                                                         ~/usr/bin/ruby
cheers.

> Thanks,> Eric>>>