From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T00:39:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem while installing RMagick on Mac OS X

Laurent wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a problem when installing RMagick from the source.
>
> I'm working on Mac OS X (Intel) 10.4.8
>
> I've installed ImageMagick (and dependencies) Release 6.3.0-6
>
> Here are the steps for installing RMagick
>
> mkdir delete_later
> cd delete_later
> curl -O http://rubyforge.rubyuser.de/rmagick/RMagick-1.14.1.tar.gz
> tar xvf RMagick-1.14.1.tar.gz
> cd RMagick-1.14.1
> ./configure
>
> Here message OK:
> This installation of RMagick 1.14.1 is configured for
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [universal-darwin8.0] and ImageMagick 6.3.0
>
> Then the command make , gives me during the process:
>
> _rb_to_id
> _rb_ull2inum
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [RMagick.bundle] Error 1
> setup.rb:655:in `command': system("make") failed (RuntimeError)
> from setup.rb:664:in `make'
> from setup.rb:1258:in `setup_dir_ext'
> from setup.rb:1532:in `__send__'
> from setup.rb:1532:in `traverse'
> from setup.rb:1530:in `dive_into'
> from setup.rb:1530:in `traverse'
> from setup.rb:1534:in `traverse'
> from setup.rb:1533:in `each'
> ... 8 levels...
> from setup.rb:826:in `__send__'
> from setup.rb:826:in `invoke'
> from setup.rb:772:in `invoke'
> from setup.rb:1578
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>   

It looks like you're using the version of Ruby that comes preinstalled 
with OS X. This version is nearly 2 years old and was built incorrectly 
by Apple. I recommend upgrading to Ruby 1.8.5 and then installing 
RMagick. Ruby is an easy install. See 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ for the source tarball. I also 
see there's a MacPorts port for ruby 1.8.5, although I haven't tried it 
myself.

If you continue to have problems installing RMagick you can always ask 
questions on the RMagick help forum on RubyForge: 
http://rubyforge.org/forum/?group_id=12.