Rails - Aug 2006 - MySQL Native Bindings

I was following the hivelogic.com article ''Building Ruby, Rails,
LightTPD,
and MySQL on Tiger''
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger

all went well till the last part, MySQL Native Bindings.

http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2005/10/30/get-10-15-more-performance-with-mysql-rails/

anyways, i recieved an error:

blinking8s:~ blinking8s$ sudo gem install mysql --
--with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
Password:
Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-darwin8.7.1)
 1. mysql 2.7.1 (mswin32)
 2. mysql 2.7 (ruby)
 3. mysql 2.6 (ruby)
 4. mysql 2.5.1 (ruby)
 5. Cancel installation
> 2
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
        --with-opt-dir
        --without-opt-dir
        --with-opt-include
        --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
        --with-opt-lib
        --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
        --with-make-prog
        --without-make-prog
        --srcdir=.
        --curdir
        --ruby=/usr/local/bin/ruby
        --with-mysql-config
        --without-mysql-config
        --with-mysql-dir
        --with-mysql-include
        --without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
        --with-mysql-lib
        --without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib
        --with-mysqlclientlib
        --without-mysqlclientlib
        --with-mlib
        --without-mlib
        --with-mysqlclientlib
        --without-mysqlclientlib
        --with-zlib
        --without-zlib
        --with-mysqlclientlib
        --without-mysqlclientlib
        --with-socketlib
        --without-socketlib
        --with-mysqlclientlib
        --without-mysqlclientlib
        --with-nsllib
        --without-nsllib
        --with-mysqlclientlib
        --without-mysqlclientlib

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (RuntimeError)
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
Gem files will remain installed in /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-
2.7 for inspection.


Results logged to /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out

I have googled for the results and found several solutions, but i am no
unix/server geek...just a photographer who has been enjoying rails enough
for the last 2 days on his locomotive/mamp setup to try to take it to the
next step and not have to use some funky configuration paths...

i am running OSX 10.4.7

any help on what i should run to get that working, or do to get rid of my
mistake, would be awesome...

thanks,

 - Will
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