From: "John N. Alegre" <info@...>
Date: 2006-03-09T03:53:41+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyCocoa and libxml-ruby-0.3.6

Daniel,

I would strongly encouage you to do this.  They are pretty good.  Looking at
the various threads I am seeing about 50 percent of people who fail in the
install of RubyCocca with DP and all of them have to do with the
ruby-libxml stuff.  I wonder why it is a some do some dont?

john

Daniel Harple wrote:

> The DP ruby applies several patches to ruby so you get a full working
> install. If you are having trouble installing ruby-libxml through
> rubygems, than download the tar.gz package, and run extconf with the
> --with-iconv-dir=/usr option, or you can wait until darwinports
> accepts my Portfile for libxml-ruby. Managing packages without the
> use of a package manager is a pain in the ass.