From: John Slimick <slimick@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T11:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Still trying to install ruby/tk

To answer my own problem, I got ruby/tk working
this evening. To get this done:

(1) I installed ActiveTcl (which defaults into /opt)

(2) I went back to the /etc/tk directory, and changed
    the hard-coded paths to ones where things might actually
    be found

(3) I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH per the README.ActiveTcl file

(4) I ran extconf.rb with the CONFIGURE arguments per
    the README.tcltklib file

I have another installation to do tomorrow. I hope
this works a second time.

This was a difficult installation.

john slimick
slimick@pitt.edu


On 2007-11-25, John Slimick <slimick@cameron.upb.pitt.edu> wrote:
> I finally gave up on trying to get the
> tcltklib file to work. By the way, it is
> in /ruby/ruby1.8.5/ext/tk directory now,
> not the /etc/tcltk directory (which doesn't
> seem to exist).
>
> I finally found the ruby-tcltk rpm for
> my linux system (fedora 5), but when I
> try to install it, it says it can't find
>
>    libtk8.4.so
>
> which exists in /usr/local/bin and in /usr/local.
> Any ideas where it should be kept so it can be found 
> rpm?
>
> thanks in advance
> john slimick
> slimick@pitt.edu