While trying to get the curb gem up and running using Ruby 1.8.7p174, I kept getting segmentation faults. I Google’d around and really wasn’t able to come up with much other than lots of people saying not to use ports here. Since I don’t use Mac Ports, I use Homebrew, I figured this wasn’t an issue. I had also recently installed the latest XCode so I incorrectly assumed there was no issue there either. (Note: I am running on a freshly upgraded version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard).
Since everything built correctly, I just assumed it would work correctly. Here it is obviously not doing so.
1 2 3 4 | ruby-1.8.7-p174 > require 'curb' /Users/elubow/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p174/gems/curb-0.7.7.1/lib/curb_core.bundle: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i686-darwin10.4.0] Abort trap |
So I narrowed it down to what I believe is an issue with the curl headers. The solution is to install a new curl library. Since I wanted to do it the Homebrew way, and Homebrew doesn’t have curl by default, here is what I did.
Copy the Homebrew Formula code from http://github.com/adamv/homebrew/blob/duplicates/Library/Formula/curl.rb into a file named curl.rb in your formula directory (mine is /usr/local/Library/Formula/). You should then be able to:
1 2 3 4 5 6 | elubow@beacon tmp$ brew install curl ==> Downloading http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.21.0.tar.bz2 ######################################################################## 100.0% ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.21.0 --disable-debug --disable-dependency-track ==> make install /usr/local/Cellar/curl/7.21.0: 72 files, 1.8M, built in 3.6 minutes |
Don’t forget to logout and log back into the shell so the new version of curl is available:
1 2 3 4 | $ curl --version curl 7.21.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.4.0) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3 libssh2/1.2.2 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp Features: IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz |
Now you have to uninstall and reinstall the curb gem. The easiest way that I found (since I have bundler installed) was to do bundle show curb to find out where the gem is located. I removed the directory and reran bundle install (or gem install curb if you don’t have bundler).
Because I am using rvm (Ruby Version Manager), I actually encountered this issue with 1.9.1p378 as well. This fixed the issue for both versions.
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