Mongrel users - May 2006 - Installing on OS X

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.

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.

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.

Cheers,
Bob


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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.


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