RVM Ruby Install on Lion Got You Down?

After a fresh install of OSX Lion, RVM decided no more of my ruby friends could come over and play. So I was all like “what’s up, RVM… y u no like my ruby exchange students anymore?”

Turns out Lion made some changes to what default compiler is getting used which makes building ruby via RVM unhappy. After some searching, the fine folks over at StackOverflow are full of win again.

Here is the solution that works for me:

CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2 rvm install <ruby version>

It was recommended that the CC variable declaration could be put in your profile reducing the need to enter it every time, but I’m uncomfortable just blindly making that change. If this is the only time I need to do this, I think I’m OK with it.