From: Chris Gehlker Date: 2001-12-19T06:42:56+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:28886] Re: Ruby for Mac OS X On 12/18/01 2:01 PM, "John Beppu" wrote: > [ date ] 2001/12/11 | Tuesday | 03:23 AM > [ author ] Luc Heinrich > >> On 10/12/2001 19:05, "Dan Hable" wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know about an OS X port of Ruby? >> >> Ruby 1.6.5 compiles fine with minor tweakings to the makefile. > ^^^^^ > > I couldn't figure out the right tweak. It died > when it tried to build the curses extension. > >> Ruby 1.7.2 compiles fine, freshly checkouted from the CVS repository. > ^^^^^ For what it's worth, I compiled the current stable snapshot with *no* tweaks to the makefile. The only problem I had was that it put the man pages, etc. in the wrong location. I've contacted Matz and I'll be sending him a diff to fix that. Do exit Terminal after building Ruby before you try to run it. -- As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. -Matt Cartmill, anthropology professor and author (1943- )