osx-snow-leopard

After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I found that installing some gems no longer worked, including webrat, mechanize etc. Each time I get this error: checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2... no libxml2 is missing. try 'port install libxml2' or 'yum install libxml2' *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. And no, I haven't tried installing it with macports, because I forswore macports a couple years back when I discovered I couldn't easily

Some background: On Mac OS X 10.6 using Macports and I have DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH set in my .bash_profile. The problem: When I run java -version I get this error: Error occurred during initialization of VM Unable to load native library: libjava.jnilib By way of one helpful forum thread , I've discovered the problem is some files in my '/opt/local/lib' directory are causing trouble because of the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH I've set. When I remove the files starting with libgif, libjpeg, libpng and libtiff from '/opt/local/lib', the problem goes away and `java -version' works, but the ports that depend on

So there's one piece of technology new to Snow Leopard that I haven't heard of. Sudden termination (see Sudden termination in this Apple doc ) is apparently a mechanism for telling the system when it is OK for your application to be killed brutally instead of going through the standard quitting mechanism. This is supposed to help faster log-off/power-off/hibernation. First, I didn't know about it, didn't see it discussed here or anywhere, so: Is it used widely? What are the typical use cases (I imagine simple utility apps with no user documents or information to save)? Second, the app can at

So I followed every suggestion in this thread without success. I'm running os x 10.6, rails 2.3.3, ruby 1.9.1 and still getting this error when I try accessing the front page of my rails app: uninitialized constant SQLite3::Driver::Native::Driver::API I've googled every possible combination of snow leopard, rails, sqlite3 without any luck. Hoping someone can help. Thanks! I finally solved this by recompiling ruby 1.9.1 with the appropriate sqlite3 libraries linked. So in my case I needed to create this link: sudo ln -s /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib /usr/local/lib

I am having some trouble getting Django & PIL work properly since upgrading to Snow Leopard. I have installed freetype, libjpeg and then PIL, which tells me: --- TKINTER support ok --- JPEG support ok --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok --- FREETYPE2 support ok but when I try to upload a jpeg through the django admin interface I get: Upload a valid image. The file you uploaded was either not an image or a corrupted image. It works fine with PNG files. Any Ideas? Cato I had the same experience with Leopard 10.5.x Here is what I did to fix it, (may not work for you). Go to your PIL working folder