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Hi Elliott,

Do you think you could post this to ruby-talk as well?  It would be good 
to get a few more eyes on this.  I'm going to forward it to the 
Seattle.rb list, since there are a disproportionate number of OS X 
freaks there :-)

- Brian W
http://coolnamehere.com/

Elliott Hughes wrote:

>In case Apple decides to go to Ruby 1.8.0 for Mac OS X 10.3, it might be
>nice to have tk "just work". There are three problems:
>
>1. Mac OS X 10.2 doesn't come with tcl/tk, you have to download it from
>Apple. Hopefully they'll fix this.
>2. Mac OS X doesn't keep tcl/tk where other Unixes do. Hopefully they won't
>fix this if they want to use this patch ;-)
>3. Tk only works if started from a .app bundle. Hopefully they'll fix this.
>
>I've posted detailed copy-and-pasteable information about getting around
>point 3 here:
>
> http://www.rubygarden.com/ruby?RubyTkOnOSX
>
>where you can also see an earlier patch I don't think I like as much as the
>one here. What does the panel think?
>
> --elliott
>
>Index: ext/tcltklib/extconf.rb
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /src/ruby/ext/tcltklib/extconf.rb,v
>retrieving revision 1.15
>diff -u -r1.15 extconf.rb
>--- ext/tcltklib/extconf.rb     20 Mar 2003 06:27:16 -0000      1.15
>+++ ext/tcltklib/extconf.rb     8 Aug 2003 09:36:26 -0000
>@@ -47,11 +47,23 @@
>   end
> end
> 
>-if have_header("tcl.h") && have_header("tk.h") &&
>+mac_os_x_tcl_framework_headers =
>"/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/headers"
>+mac_os_x_tk_framework_headers = "/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/headers"
>+use_mac_os_x_tk = false
>+
>+if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/ &&
>+    File.exists?(mac_os_x_tcl_framework_headers) &&
>+    File.exists?(mac_os_x_tk_framework_headers)
>+  $CPPFLAGS += " -I#{mac_os_x_tcl_framework_headers}
>-I#{mac_os_x_tk_framework_headers}"
>+  $LDFLAGS += ' -framework Tk -framework Tcl'
>+  use_mac_os_x_tk = true
>+end
>+
>+if (have_header("tcl.h") && have_header("tk.h") &&
>     (/mswin32|mingw|cygwin|bccwin32/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM ||
>find_library("X11", "XOpenDisplay",
>        "/usr/X11/lib", "/usr/lib/X11", "/usr/X11R6/lib",
>"/usr/openwin/lib")) &&
>     find_tcl(tcllib, stubs) &&
>-    find_tk(tklib, stubs)
>+    find_tk(tklib, stubs)) || use_mac_os_x_tk
>   $CPPFLAGS += ' -DUSE_TCL_STUBS -DUSE_TK_STUBS' if stubs
>   $CPPFLAGS += ' -D_WIN32' if /cygwin/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM
>   create_makefile("tcltklib")
>
>
>
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