From: Michael Granger <ged@...>
Date: 2011-03-04T04:43:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to install pg on 32bit Snow Leopard 10.6

On Feb 28, 2011, at 9:30 AM, theLemcke wrote:
> 
> On Feb 28, 9:16 am, theLemcke <sixtimesn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to install the "pg" gem on 32-bit snow leopard and I'm
>> encountering the following error:
>> 
>> $ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install pg -v=0.9.0
>> Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>> ERROR:  Error installing pg:
>>         ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
>> 
> [...]
> Mkmf.log file for reference:
> 
> [...]
> have_library: checking for PQconnectdb() in -lpq...
> -------------------- no
> 
> "/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -o conftest -I. -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-
> darwin10 -I. -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE  -
> I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/postgresql84 -pipe -O2  -fno-
> common -pipe -fno-common   -arch i386 conftest.c  -L. -L/opt/local/lib
> -L/opt/local/lib -L. -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib/postgresql84 -
> arch i386  -arch i386   -lruby-static -lpq  -lpthread -ldl -lobjc  "
> conftest.c: In function ‘t’:
> conftest.c:3: error: ‘PQconnectdb’ undeclared (first use in this
> function)
> conftest.c:3: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> conftest.c:3: error: for each function it appears in.)
> checked program was:
> /* begin */
> 1: /*top*/
> 2: int main() { return 0; }
> 3: int t() { void ((*volatile p)()); p = (void ((*)()))PQconnectdb;
> return 0; }
> /* end */
> 
> "/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -o conftest -I. -I/opt/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-
> darwin10 -I. -I/opt/local/include -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE  -
> I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/postgresql84 -pipe -O2  -fno-
> common -pipe -fno-common   -arch i386 conftest.c  -L. -L/opt/local/lib
> -L/opt/local/lib -L. -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib/postgresql84 -
> arch i386  -arch i386   -lruby-static -lpq  -lpthread -ldl -lobjc  "
> ld: warning: in /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/libpq.dylib, file was
> built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being
> linked (i386)
> Undefined symbols:
>  "_PQconnectdb", referenced from:
>      _t in ccNZOcje.o
> ld: symbol(s) not found

Your PostgreSQL client library is x86_64, not i386. The "file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)" pretty much says it all.

I'd make sure pg_config is in your path, then try running it without the ARCHFLAGS override.

--
Michael Granger <ged@FaerieMUD.org>
Rubymage, Architect, Believer
The FaerieMUD Consortium <http://www.FaerieMUD.org/>