From: Chris Gehlker <gehlker@...>
Date: 2002-03-21T08:19:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/Tk on OSX

On 3/20/02 8:42 AM, "Jack Herrington" <jack_d_herrington@pobox.com> wrote:

> Has anyone had any success running Ruby/Tk on OSX.
> 
> Curently I am stuck at the:
> 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/Tk.rb:7:in `require': No such file to load --
> tcltklib (LoadError)
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/Tk.rb:7
>       from -:1:in `require'
>       from -:1
> 
> Phase of the problem.  I'm not sure why this is an issue, since
> tcltklib seems to compile with the Ruby distribution.   But I can't
> find where it is going.
> 

I don't think so. It's looking for a file named tcltklib.rb and not finding
it. I searched through the install directory and it's not there so the
install must be supposed to make it. But it doesn't.

The problem seems to be in extconf.rb. Look at find_tcl() and in particular
the definition of paths. I don't see how this is going to find the tk/tcl
stuff in /System/Library/Frameworks.

So much of the install just works that there must be a better definition of
paths elsewhere that we could ask Matz to plug in. I'd chase it down but I
have to do something else now. If you do figure it out, please post.

Otherwise, I'll figure it out "someday."
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