From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2009-10-19T16:37:52+09:00
Subject: Re: can't compile bdb 0.6.5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.1)

On Oct 18, 2009, at 11:53 PM, Jason Fr wrote:

> I can see a bdb.bundle file installed:
> cto@bigmac-2 (722)  $ ls -l
> opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/i686-darwin10/bdb.bundle
> -rwxr-xr-x  2 root  admin  218168 Oct 18 22:08
> opt/local/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/i686-darwin10/bdb.bundle

/opt/local/lib/ruby/* directories are not in Ruby's library path by  
default. You'll have to add those directories to your RUBYLIB  
environment variable.

> Just for kicks, I tried to download the bdb source after installing  
> the
> port, and running ruby extconf.rb. It errors with "extconf.rb:90:  
> libdb
> not found (RuntimeError)" Then "make" gives me this:
>
> cto@bigmac-2 (727) (master) $ make
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `ruby.h', needed by `bdb.o'.   
> Stop.

After upgrading to SnowLeopard you need to reinstall the Developer  
Tools to get ruby.h and friends.

Cheers,

Josh