RMagick Part Deux - R-Men in Tights

Well, after much frikkin consternation, I was able to install RMagick by following this. I believe one of the problems was that I set gcc version to 4.0 !!! :(

So, I set it back to 3.3 and found a little bit more information (It is really SICK how frighteningly complicated and assinine the install if ImageMagick is! .. then again, I'm complaining on just installing.. think about the good people who develop it.. so.. enough bitching)

here is what you have to do on OSX Tiger I think:

• Follow Hive Logic tutorial, put it in a shell script whatever. EXCEPT!!!... (see below)
  
• After downloading the versions of Imagemagick source, do the following to configure:
  
  
  
  • ./configure --prefix=/usr/local CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/local/include' LDFLAGS='-L/opt/local/lib'
    
  • make
    
  • sudo make install (you will see some warnings, I think it is okay to ignore them)
    
  • gem install rmagick
    
  
  

NOTE: make sure you are downloading the latest versions of all the libs, HiveLogic's versions are lagging behind a bit, but it seems to have done the thing for me to the point where I was able to install the gem.