Did you install gcc manually or did you get it when you installed the apple developer tools?
-Jeremy On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have found very little information about this problem on the net, so i > thought someone here might be able to help me. > > I am running mac os x 10.4 on a powerbook and have installed ruby 1.8.6 and > was trying to get ferret to work, without any success. > Here is exactly what i did and what happened: > > $ sudo gem install ferret > Updating metadata for 125 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org > > ............................................................................................................................. > complete > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > Successfully installed ferret-0.11.6 > 1 gem installed > Installing ri documentation for ferret-0.11.6... > Installing RDoc documentation for ferret-0.11.6... > $ ruby ferret_test.rb > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.6/lib/ferret_ext.bundle: > Failed to load > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.6/lib/ferret_ext.bundle > (LoadError) > from > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require' > from > /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.11.6/lib/ferret.rb:25 > from > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in > `gem_original_require' > from > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:32:in `require' > from ferret_test.rb:2 > > > The ferret_test.rb includes the following lines: > require 'rubygems' > require 'ferret' > include Ferret > > The ferret_ext.bundle file does exist but i am guessing it might not have > been properly compiled. I opened it afterwards and it contains some error > message that seem to not belong there. > I do have gcc (4.0.1) and make etc. installed. The Powerbook is obviously > not an intel mac but in the .bundle-file i found this, i am not sure if that > helps to find out what the problem is: > > *ERROR: POSH double precision floating point serialization failed. Please > report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > OS:..............MacOS X > CPU:.............Intel 386+ > endian:..........little > ptr size:........32-bits > 64-bit ints......yes > floating point...enabled > compiler.........Gnu GCC > > Please help! > > Patrick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk

