Upgrading to Mountain Lion
So I finally got around to upgrading to Mountain Lion.
Required Steps
My first stop was to follow Thoughtbot’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Riding a Mountain Lion.
- Get Xcode and Command Line Tools installed
- Fix homebrew permissions with
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local - Update homebrew with
brew update - Install gcc 4.2 to install older rubies with
brew tap homebrew/dupes; brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42 - Install X11 support with XQuartz
TL;DR for installing Ruby 1.8.7
$ export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/X11/include
$ CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2 rvm install 1.8.7
My little story
Initially I didn’t want to install X11 since I didn’t think I needed it.
Then I tried to use vim (not MacVim, I just wanted to edit a file
quickly) and received:
$ vim
Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
Vim: Finished.
[1] 42573 segmentation fault vim
What version of vim?
$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 20 2012 13:16:02)
Compiled by root@apple.com
/snip/
It seems that if you brew install vim, it still breaks:
$ /usr/local/bin/vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 15 2012 18:02:59)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-687
Compiled by databyte@nyx
Turns out that I need ruby-1.8.7 due to a compatibility in
Janus, which was outdated. The
quick fix was upgrading Janus by running rake within ~/.vim but I
might as well compile ruby-1.8.7 since I bothered to install gcc 4.2.
Let’s try to install ruby-1.8.7 with rvm:
$ rvm install ruby-1.8.7-p370
No binary rubies available for: osx/10.8/x86_64/ruby-1.8.7-p370.
Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm mount' to get more information on binary rubies.
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/databyte/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p370, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #downloading ruby-1.8.7-p370, this may take a while depending on your connection...
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #extracting ruby-1.8.7-p370 to /Users/databyte/.rvm/src/ruby-1.8.7-p370
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #extracted to /Users/databyte/.rvm/src/ruby-1.8.7-p370
Applying patch /Users/databyte/.rvm/patches/ruby/1.8.7/stdout-rouge-fix.patch
Applying patch /Users/databyte/.rvm/patches/ruby/1.8.7/no_sslv2.diff
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #configuring
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #compiling
Error running 'make', please read /Users/databyte/.rvm/log/ruby-1.8.7-p370/make.log
There has been an error while running make. Halting the installation.
Please be aware that you just installed a ruby that requires 2 patches just to be compiled on up to date linux system.
This may have known and unaccounted for security vulnerabilities.
Please consider upgrading to Ruby 1.9.3-286 which will have all of the latest security patches.
Turns out in the logs that:
/usr/include/tk.h:78:23: error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
Hence the need for XQuartz. Now let’s install XQuartz and then reinstall ruby but also explicity set X11’s include path:
$ export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/X11/include
$ CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2 rvm reinstall 1.8.7
Removing /Users/databyte/.rvm/src/ruby-1.8.7-p370...
/Users/databyte/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p370 has already been removed.
No binary rubies available for: osx/10.8/x86_64/ruby-1.8.7-p370.
Continuing with compilation. Please read 'rvm mount' to get more information on binary rubies.
Installing Ruby from source to: /Users/databyte/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p370, this may take a while depending on your cpu(s)...
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #downloading ruby-1.8.7-p370, this may take a while depending on your connection...
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #extracting ruby-1.8.7-p370 to /Users/databyte/.rvm/src/ruby-1.8.7-p370
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #extracted to /Users/databyte/.rvm/src/ruby-1.8.7-p370
Applying patch /Users/databyte/.rvm/patches/ruby/1.8.7/stdout-rouge-fix.patch
Applying patch /Users/databyte/.rvm/patches/ruby/1.8.7/no_sslv2.diff
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #configuring
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #compiling
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #installing
Removing old Rubygems files...
Installing rubygems-1.8.24 for ruby-1.8.7-p370 ...
Installation of rubygems completed successfully.
Saving wrappers to '/Users/databyte/.rvm/bin'.
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #adjusting #shebangs for (gem irb erb ri rdoc testrb rake).
ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #importing default gemsets (/Users/databyte/.rvm/gemsets/)
Install of ruby-1.8.7-p370 - #complete
Please be aware that you just installed a ruby that requires 2 patches just to be compiled on up to date linux system.
This may have known and unaccounted for security vulnerabilities.
Please consider upgrading to Ruby 1.9.3-286 which will have all of the latest security patches.
Making gemset ruby-1.8.7-p370 pristine.
Making gemset ruby-1.8.7-p370@global pristine.
Well that works and now I have ruby 1.8.7. Let’s try out vim again:
$ rvm use 1.8.7
$ /usr/local/bin/vim
Yep, that works too!
$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 15 2012 18:08:38)
MacOS X (unix) version
Included patches: 1-687
Compiled by databyte@
Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval -browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
-clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments
+conceal +cryptv +cscope +cursorbind +cursorshape +dialog_con +diff +digraphs
-dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path
+find_in_path +float +folding -footer +fork() -gettext -hangul_input +iconv
+insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent
+listcmds +localmap -lua +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse -mouseshape
+mouse_dec -mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm -mouse_sysmouse
+mouse_xterm +mouse_urxvt +mouse_sgr +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme
+netbeans_intg +path_extra -perl +persistent_undo +postscript +printer +profile
+python -python3 +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby +scrollbind +signs
+smartindent -sniff +startuptime +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title
-toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo
+vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup -X11 -xfontset -xim -xsmp
-xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/local/share/vim"
Compilation: cc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DMACOS_X_UNIX -no-cpp-precomp -g -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1
Linking: cc -L. -L/usr/local/lib -o vim -lm -lncurses -liconv -framework Cocoa -framework Python -lruby -lobjc