can one run tk/Ruby gui code from an emacs shell with compile?

[Anne G]

What is the story, one step too many and you fall back into
the infierno, orpheus or some such?

Turning the le into el and rebooting, emacs now gives me a
permission denied on line 1, which is the require 'tk' line.
turning the .el back to .le did not get it to work again.
There is no Dyld that I can see.

EMACSDATA=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/etc
EMACSDOC=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/etc
EMACSLOADPATH=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/leim:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp
EMACSPATH=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin
HOME=/Users/anne
INFOPATH=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/info
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
PWD=/Users/anne/Desktop
SECURITYSESSIONID=211460
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
USER=anne
_=/usr/bin/env
__CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F6:0:0

Oh well, terminal still works fine. And well, I have learned
something about the complexity of setting things up to work
together!

~/.bashrc has
# add /usr/local/bin to the path
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

this does not have your " quote" but adding the " does not
resolve this new permission denied mesage. This is how it
was when it worked.

I had not added anything in this file about Dyld apparently.
Just entered the command at the prompt.

I did not touch the ~/MacOSX/environment.plist
 version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST
1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
         <key>PATH</key>
<string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Litteraly, the only things I changed knowingly was adding
the " " in ~/.bashrc and removing them, and changing file
from .le to .el and back to
carbon-emacs-builtin.aspell.le
carbon-emacs-japanese-init.el   carbon-emacs-path.el

Strange. Bummer

anne