[Mongrel] Installing on OS X

[Bob Hutchison]

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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