Hi Bob, On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 10:18 -0400, Bob Hutchison wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed Mongrel 3.12.4 on OS X, and had one little > difficulty: I kept getting an error message saying that HTTPHandler > didn't exist, maybe it was Mongrel, I don't remember. Turns out that > there was a lot more missing than that, so it doesn't really matter. > Yes, this is a really common problem with how rubygems compiles extensions. It should fail when it can't compile http11, but instead just keeps going.
> What was happening is that http11 was not installing and the "require > 'http11'" failed silently, and so the loading of mongrel.rb didn't > load completely (it stopped at that require). > > Http11 was not loading because there is no 'ginstall' on my machine, > it is called 'install', and it is in a different place than expected. > Anyway, fixing that up in the Makefile, running 'make clean', then > 'make', then 'make install' and the http11.bundle was installed > properly. > Ah, I wonder if it's distributing the Makefile from my system. I'll check that out. > Another little detail, there is a problem in Ruby compiling with any > optimisation level other than -O0 or -O1 on OS X it is a gcc4 issue I > believe. I have no idea if this makes any difference for Mongrel, but > it might. > Yes, and actually it's mostly a problem on the PPC platform. I solved it by switching to the gcc 3.3 version and haven't had any issues since. -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
