On Aug 13, 7:48 pm, Craig Westmoreland <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I run macosx - leopard, which ships with ruby 1.8.6.
> I noticed there is now ruby 1.8.7 so I tried to install it.
>
> I downloaded the zip file and opened Terminal.
> once i had 'cd'd to the correct directory, i tried to do ./configure
> as the README file suggested. this threw out the configure: error: no
> acceptable C compiler found in $PATH error message,
>
> I cannot get past this point now, so am not sure what to do now. I
> still have 1.8.6 installed as standard, but cant get past this,
>
> Any idea?
>
Did you install the Xcode tools ? (on one of the disks that came with
your mac). hivelogic has a good tutorial on compiling your own ruby on
a mac
Fred
> I'm new to ruby, and only know a few unix commands, so any help would
> be appreciated (ideally step by step as this is very new to me!!)
>
> Many Thanks for reading!
> Craig
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