From: Thomas Yager-Madden <tym@...>
Date: 2003-09-09T11:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8.0 .pkg/installer for OS X?

Fink is righteous, and far be it from me to discourage its use under any 
circumstances.

FWIW, however, I found ruby 1.8 to be one of the most straightforward 
builds from source I've come across under OS X, just riding bareback on 
gcc.  I don't recall having to do any special config line mojo at all. 
configure;make;sudo make install and I was set. (Of course, I had 
readline &c built already.  YMMV.)

Cheers,
Thomas


In article <A13805C8-E20C-11D7-A866-000A95782782@forthillcompany.com>,
 Brian McCallister <mccallister@forthillcompany.com> wrote:

> Is there a reason you don't want to use fink or darwin-ports? Both of 
> these provide dependency resolution (ie, readline library).
> 
> I am pretty sure ruby 1.8 is in the unstable branch for fink at the 
> moment.
> 
> On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 10:21 AM, David Heinemeier Hansson 
> wrote:
> 
> >> As for a .pkg...there is a RubyForge project to build an installer 
> >> for OS X ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/osx-dist/ ).  The project 
> >> maintainer has not released a .pkg file yet...I will contact him and 
> >> ask status.