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/


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