I am going to assume you also have an up to date version of rubygems
right? I will try to install it on one of my old eMacs in about an
hour and will let you know how it goes.

-Jeremy

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got it with the installation of the apple dev tools.
>
>  $ gcc -v
>  Using built-in specs.
>  Target: powerpc-apple-darwin8
>  Configured with: /var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5370~2/src/configure --disable-checking
>  -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man
>  --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++
>  --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/
>  --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib
>  --build=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --host=powerpc-apple-darwin8
>  --target=powerpc-apple-darwin8
>  Thread model: posix
>  gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)
>
>  Patrick
>
>
>  Am 27.02.2008 20:59 Uhr schrieb "Jeremy Canady" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>
>  > 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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