From: Raymond Blum <raymond@...>
Date: 2002-10-30T12:41:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Strscan, mkmf and MacOS X

Thanks, I'll use fink. I tried installing the ruby 1.6.7 package but 
the installer figured that it was already installed and did nothing.

---Raymond

On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 09:40 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 12:21 PM, Raymond Blum wrote:
>>
>
>> So I have two questions:
>>  1 - Does anyone know what to do to get strscan built on MacOS 10.2?
>
> I took the cowards way out: "fink install ruby." If you haven't used 
> fink, you're in for a treat. Fink is at
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php Look for the Jag install 
> directions. One great thing is you can totally disable it by simply 
> commenting out a line in your .tcshrc.
>
> I still had one problem. Somehow the Makefile gets a "-L. -ruby" 
> appended to the gcc call. I just edited it out, reran make, and then 
> went back to the strscan directory and did the "sudo ruby install.rb 
> install"
>
>>
>>  2-  Is there a good explanation for how mkmf works? (i.e. the above)
>
> It's weird an wonderful when it works. The only way I found to get a 
> handle on it was to step through it with the Pickaxe book in front of 
> me. Of course it has to be working first. Hence fink.
>
> --
> There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore 
> good."
> And one says, "This is new, and therefore better."
> -John Brunner, science fiction writer (1934-1995)
>
>