From: Sean O'Donnell <s3an.odonn3ll@...>
Date: 2009-10-31T22:00:05+09:00
Subject: compile architecture-specific, portable ruby

Hello,

I am trying to put together a compiled, standalone version of ruby
that I can drop into a user directory from a portable drive. Think:
classroom setting with twenty, un-networked OSX 10.4/PPC machines. I
want to compile once on one of these machines, then tarball it up and
copy it out to the user's home directory on each of the other
computers. I then update the user's PATH (e.g., /Users/student/local/
ruby) to find this version of ruby.

Here's how I build it now, which isn't quite working:

ruby-1.87-src> ./configure --prefix=/Users/teacher/local
ruby-1.87-src> make && make install

It's built in my local directory, which I tarball and then copy out
to /Users/student/local on the other PPCs. But, when I try to run it
from the other computer, I get this error:

==start

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _ruby_init_stack
 Referenced from: /Applications/MKSAP15/RoR/Ruby/bin/ruby
 Expected in: /usr/lib/libruby.dylib

dyld: Symbol not found: _ruby_init_stack
 Referenced from: /Applications/MKSAP15/RoR/Ruby/bin/ruby
 Expected in: /usr/lib/libruby.dylib

Trace/BPT trap

=end

Thoughts? I guess the high-level question is this: Are there
additional flags that I need to pass to `configure` to build a self-
contained, architecture-specific version?

Thanks,

Sean