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
>
>
>
>
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