From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-04-30T05:07:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Install 1.8.1 on Mac OSX


On Apr 29, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Mark Hubbart wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 29, 2004, at 7:14 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Nick Van Weerdenburg wrote:
>>>
>>>> I didn't have that problem- my ruby install went very smoothly.
>>>>
>>>> I did have a strange problem where I did configure/make/make 
>>>> install,
>>>> and then moved my ruby source directory. I then did "configure/make
>>>> clean/make" and got compile errors- it seemed it remembered certain
>>>> info from the first configure I did.
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>> i about to do this on a friends machine too - is this all you you 
>>> have
>>> to do
>>> on macs?  configure/make?  i know nothing about macs and wondered if
>>> compiling/installing from the command line would update all required
>>> databases?  for instance, is there some sort of file association
>>> database,
>>> etc...
>>>
>>>
>>> go easy on me - i'm a total mac newbie - any pointers for unix geeks
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> basically, yeah, just configure/make/make install. If it was ported to
>> Darwin (as ruby and most of it's ext's are), it should compile nicely,
>> and install.
>>
>> The only thing that needs a little work is if you want to work with 
>> Tk.
>> Readline works automatically if you are on 10.3 aand have the XCode CD
>> installed. Which, I think you have to have to compile anything anyway.
>> :)
>
> noticed this already.... guess i'll first have to install tcl/tk 8.4 
> and set
> LD_RUN_PATH for the compile of ruby eh?

http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyTkOnOSX

GavinKistner's short step-by-step on getting tcl/tk to work under OS X.

You don't have to make a separate executable for it like Gavin did, 
though... you can just do that last step on the original. A note should 
probably be put there...

--Mark